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User and configuration bits in FPGA

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Dear friends!

Can someone explain, what is a difference between user and configuation bits into FPGA ?

thank you, in advance

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User bits: bits that can be used as part of the design: logic element registers and memories.

Configuration bits: bits where the FPGA configuration is stored.

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