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Altera Corporation
Stratix II Device Handbook, Volume 2
January 2008
Fast Passive Parallel Configuration
configuration device also goes through a POR delay to allow the power
supply to stabilize. The POR time for enhanced configuration devices can
be set to either 100 ms or 2 ms, depending on its PORSEL pin setting. If the
PORSEL
pin is connected to GND, the POR delay is 100 ms. If the PORSEL
pin is connected to VCC, the POR delay is 2 ms. During this time, the
configuration device drives its OE pin low. This low signal delays
configuration because the OE pin is connected to the target device’s
nSTATUS
pin.
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When selecting a POR time, you need to ensure that the device
completes power-up before the enhanced configuration device
exits POR. Altera recommends that you use a 12-ms POR time
for the Stratix II or Stratix II GX device, and use a 100-ms POR
time for the enhanced configuration device.
When both devices complete POR, they release their open-drain OE or
nSTATUS
pin, which is then pulled high by a pull-up resistor. Once the
device successfully exits POR, all user I/O pins continue to be tri-stated.
If nIO_pullup is driven low during power-up and configuration, the
user I/O pins and dual-purpose I/O pins will have weak pull-up
resistors, which are on (after POR) before and during configuration. If
nIO_pullup
is driven high, the weak pull-up resistors are disabled.
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The value of the weak pull-up resistors on the I/O pins that are on before
When the power supplies have reached the appropriate operating
voltages, the target device senses the low-to-high transition on nCONFIG
and initiates the configuration cycle. The configuration cycle consists of
three stages: reset, configuration and initialization. While nCONFIG or
nSTATUS
are low, the device is in reset. The beginning of configuration
can be delayed by holding the nCONFIG or nSTATUS pin low.
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VCCINT, VCCIO and VCCPD of the banks where the configuration
and JTAG pins reside need to be fully powered to the
appropriate voltage levels in order to begin the configuration
process.
When nCONFIG goes high, the device comes out of reset and releases the
nSTATUS
pin, which is pulled high by a pull-up resistor. Enhanced
configuration devices have an optional internal pull-up resistor on the OE
pin. This option is available in the Quartus II software from the General
tab of the Device & Pin Options dialog box. If this internal pull-up
resistor is not used, an external 10-k pull-up resistor on the
OE-nSTATUS
line is required. Once nSTATUS is released, the device is
ready to receive configuration data and the configuration stage begins.