On Saturday 29 January 2005 02:34, Pieter Hulshoff wrote: > On Saturday 29 January 2005 04:17, Timothy Miller wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 19:01:35 -0500, Andr� Pouliot > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm a student at the university and my program is > > > Microelectronics Engineering , so i'm about to go talk to the > > > director of my program about the card. But one of the factor to > > > sold it to him is the ability to reprogram it. If you try to > > > reprogram it using your own code and forget to implement the pci > > > interface (or did'nt do it right) will it's still be possible to > > > reprogram it using the computer? Or must we use a external > > > programmer? > > > > You would need an external programmer, unless we decide to separate > > out the controller into another chip, which we really want to > > avoid. > > Why not have a backup flash with a jumper, so you can always > reinstall the original program into the FPGA? There's many > motherboards around that use a similar technique.
Easy: it's an extra part == extra cost. But I'll substitute my own question: is there a basic flash loader in rom so there's always something to fall back to? Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
