This is a very simple question, but is something that I have taken for granted with all of the nice tools. For the Xilinx FPGAs (Spartan, Virtex), the ISE tools generated a .bit file for configuration for specific device.
If I wanted an MCU on my PCB to hold the configuration data and configure the FPGA on my target board, could I literally just send in the the data in the .bit file bit by bit with the CCLK, DIN, etc pins? Or do I convert this file into a different hex file for an direct bit for bit configuration.
Thanks, Eli Hughes