The loveable little DE0-Nano is getting a mini upgrade – courtesy to our friends over at Spansion!
The exact upgrade will be to the EPCS flash memory serial configuration device. The previous part was a 16Mb flash device, but will now be upgraded to a heftier 64Mb device, the S25FL064, from Spansion, which will have the exact same properties as the old Altera EPCS device, but with higher density.
Can you notice the difference?
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How can we tell whether the product stocked by some distributor (e.g. Farnell) is the new DE0 Nano with 64 megabit of flash?
Thanks,
Alex
The actual 64 Mb flash is not out yet! It will be out at the end of August, so the present DE0-Nano devices will have the Altera EPCS device.
hi we had a board with EPCS64 used and everything worked but now with this little upgrade flash programming succeeds but fpga does not load from this flash 🙁
My board has the EPCS64. I have just programmed the flash and the FPGA loads the configuration OK.
With EPCS64 it is ok also in our case. I’m still investigating ….
Ok problem was with memory clock and wrong pll shift.
I also have the same problem with this ‘EPCS64’, Where can I setup software Quartus II 12.1 to make it work ?
My DE0-Nano, recently purchased from Digi-Key, actually has an Altera EPCS64.
Slightly off topic: any change of seeing a DE0-Nano-like product with a Cyclone V A5 or better? There’s a scarcity of affordable dev kits with useful amounts of block ram. Throw in an FPGA with transceivers (fx. 5CGXBC5) for a killer deal.
yes! though I can’t say much more, sorry 🙂
Thank you. I’ll continue hitting refresh on terasic.com, awaiting the news.
My $0.05: blockram, external memory, and transceivers (in that order) is always what I wish I had more of. Never buttons, switches, LEDs, LCD displays, or other random peripherals, all of which always have no value to me.