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16 years ago

Application selector HW only load

Is it possible to just load the converted .sof file only within the NEEK application selector? There might be plenty of other FPGA designs not using NIOSII (o;
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16 years ago

take a look at the source code for the application selector. it checks to see if there are 2 .fla(sh) files in a single directory to see if its a valid application. so i guess the next step is trying an empty file named something_sw.flash. if it doesn't work you'll have to modify the bootloader code to skip the software if its not present.