How Full is an FPGA Chip

[otheredward]

Hello, I'm running LV 2012 on Windows 7 with a PCI 7852R FPGA board. I have a project with 3 programs that are currently compiled on the chip and working great. I'd like to know how much space is left on the chip. That is, can I compile another program to the chip without overwriting an existing program? Will I get a warning if space runs out and a program is being overwritten? Is there a simple way to find out how many resources each program is using on the chip without recompiling?

Thanks,

Ed

[crossrulz]

Only 1 bit file can exist on the FPGA at a time.  You are actually overwriting the FPGA each time you change projects.

[Intaris]

What crossrulz says is completely accurate.

Wouldn't it be cool if we COULD have partial bitfiles?  Really Really cool.  But we can't.

Who knows what future FPGA generations will bring bot at the moment it's monolithic.  Writing a bitfile automatically erases the old one.

Shane.