Do old FPGA's decay?

[Ryan K. Brooks]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 12/1/2005 at 11:13 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
>
>   
>> Hang on, this thing isn't configured from the host computer is it (e.g. 
>> by the device dricer loading a bitstream into the chip)? If it is, it 
>> will appaer totally dead until that program's been run.
>>     
>
> Uh huh--no E/EP/ROM on the board at all--just the XC2064 and a bunch of
> TTL.  It appears that the device driver loads the bitstream.  Of course, I
> don't have and can't locate the device driver.  
Not even some little 8-pinner serial eeprom?

-Ryan Brooks