Damn that's awesome. Everyday I learn something new about this board
that causes me to admire it even more. Thanks Peter.
--- In "PeterElliot" <> wrote:
>
> 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" <james.singer1@> 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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