Intel Configuration Devices

Intel® FPGA Configuration Devices are the ideal complement to our FPGAs. Our serial configuration devices are designed to support specific Intel® FPGA families.

Intel's FPGA Configuration Devices are the industry's easiest-to-use configuration devices:

• These devices receive regression testing with Intel's tools & intellectual property and are fully supported by technical support
• Guaranteed to work with all Intel's intellectual property (IP) blocks, such as the serial flash loader or ASMI parallel IP blocks
• Designed for maximum efficiency
• Offer in-system programmability (ISP) and reprogram capabilities not available with one-time-programmable devices

The Intel® FPGA Configuration Devices have the following advantages:

• Reliability: they typically support a minimum of 100,000 erase cycles per sector and a minimum of 20 years data retention. As a result, their management is simpler, with no need for error correction and bad block management
• Low Pin Count requirement: a quad SPI flash device typically requires six pins, but it can be used with as few as four pins when being used as a replacement with an EPCQ-A device
• High bandwidth

Intel® FPGA Configuration Devices work with dedicated logic in Intel® Cyclone®, Stratix®, and Arria® devices to implement reliable remote system upgrade. Dedicated recovery circuitry guarantees "always operational" functionality by ensuring that even if an update or configuration error occurs, the FPGA always returns to a known state to operate correctly.

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