On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:34:40 +0100, Pieter Hulshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Yes. It's simply a matter of cost, not just in terms of chips but also PCB routing complexity. It is, however, an idea that we still have on the table. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
