Sw9 - force safe, Sw10 - power-on reset – Altera Nios Development Board User Manual

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Altera Corporation

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December 2004

Nios Development Board Reference Manual, Cyclone Edition

Board Components

Figure 1–19. Safe Config Button

SW9 – Force Safe

Pressing Force Safe (SW9) commands the configuration controller to re-
configure the Cyclone device with the factory-programmed safe
configuration.

SW10 – Power-On Reset

Power-On Reset (SW10) is the power-on reset button (see

Figure 1–20

).

When SW10 is pressed, a logic 0 is driven to the power-on reset controller
(U18). See

“Power-Supply Circuitry” on page 1–28

for more details. After

SW10 is pressed, the configuration controller will load the Cyclone device
from flash memory.

Figure 1–20. Power-On Reset Configuration Button

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