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From: John Sheahan <jrsheahan@o...>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:33:53 +1100
Subject: Re: [oc] FPGA BOARD Considerations
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:05:46PM +0100, H�ctor Or�n Mart�nez wrote:
> for your experience to do with memory to program SRAM FPGA ? and what do you
> think of it being modular and having for that a maximum frec penalty?
Why have a resident config scheme at all?
Use a host pc to download. It has to be there occasionally to get the
config into the programming device.
Go straight in to the fpga using jtag.
It is a shock to discover the config device is comparable in cost to
the fpga.
if there is a cpu with flash elsewhere in the project,
using that makes sense. As long as the fpga is not essential to the
cpu boot.
A cpld and a standard flash can sometimes also be cost effective.
john
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