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Chapter 9: Configuration, Design Security, and Remote System Upgrades in the Cyclone III Device Family
Configuration Features
This chapter describes the Cyclone III device family configuration features and
describes how to configure Cyclone III device family using the supported
configuration schemes. This chapter also includes configuration pin descriptions and
the Cyclone III device family configuration file formats. In this chapter, the generic
term “device” includes all Cyclone III device family.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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Configuration Features
Cyclone III device family offers configuration data decompression to reduce
configuration file storage, provides design security feature to protect your
configuration data (for Cyclone III LS devices only), and provides remote system
upgrade to allow you to remotely update your Cyclone III device family designs.
lists which configuration methods you can use in each configuration
scheme.
Table 9–1. Cyclone III Device Family Configuration Features (Part 1 of 2)
Configuration
Method
Serial Configuration
Device
Serial Configuration
Device
Supported Flash
Memory
Supported Flash
Memory
External Host with
Flash Memory
Download Cable
Passive Serial Fast (PS Fast POR)
External Host with
Flash Memory
Download Cable
Fast Passive Parallel Fast (FPP Fast POR)
External Host with
Flash Memory
Remote
System
Upgrade
Configuration Scheme
Decompression
Design
Security
(Cyclone III LS
Devices Only)
v
v
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v
v
Fast Active Serial Standard (AS Standard POR)
Fast Active Serial Fast (AS Fast POR)
Active Parallel ×16 Standard (AP Standard POR, for
Cyclone III devices only)
Active Parallel ×16 Fast (AP Fast POR, for Cyclone III
devices only)
Passive Serial Standard (PS Standard POR)
v
v
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v
v
v
v
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v
v
v
v
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v
v
v
Cyclone III Device Handbook
Volume 1
August 2012 Altera Corporation
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