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Getting Started with FX2LP™
FX2LP Introduction
3.4.3
Booting an FPGA from FX2LP
FX2LP is all about efficient system integration.
illustrate another way FX2LP can save
external logic.
FPGA
FX2LP
PC
Bitstream
Boot
Memory
Figure 7
FPGA Boots from External Memory
At power-on, an FPGA boots its configuration bitstream using an external memory (
FPGA
FX2LP
PC
Bitstream
Figure 8
FPGA Boots through FX2LP
FX2LP can be configured to load the FPGA bitstream file from the PC as in
. This eliminates the need for
a boot memory and enables FPGA updates from the PC.
3.4.4
Further Reading
For an example implementation using a Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA, refer