FPGA configuration download - How is it done?

Nov 02, 2004 1 Replies

Hello everybody,



I am trying to gain a deeper understanding of the way an FPGA is programmed.



For SRAM based FPGAs, I know the configuration is loaded either by row, column or frame.



But how exactaly are the SRAM cells programmed?



Are they part of a long shift register, which is filled in by the configuration bitstream?



Or is there something I am missing?



If there is any paper or article describing this, I'd be glad if anyone could point it out to me.



I realize that, for manufacturers, this might be proprietry information, but surely there's some work out there describing the process?



Thank you very much for your help.


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