James,
There are two basic types of FPGA Flash and SRAM based. The Altera
Cyclone2 on the TS-7300 is a SRAM based device which needs to be
loaded every time power is reapplied. There are no issues with the
number of times this is performed. Usually the loading of the FPGA is
performed either by the host CPU or via a small EEPROM which stores
the .rbf file.
One benefit of an SRAM based FPGA is that you could reprogram the
device on the fly depending on the application being performed.
Obviously this would be relatively complex if devices such as the SD
card or second Ethernet interface were being used.
Regards,
PJE
--- In "gamehoser" <> wrote:
>
> This makes it sound like the board writes the FPGA bitstream to the
> FPGA each time it boots. Please tell me that it at least checks to
> see that it needs to. I'd hate to be wearing that component out
when
> I'm not changing anything.
>
> --- In "PeterElliot" <egroups@> wrote:
> >
> > James,
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