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cconger
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2 years ago

Converting .sof file to .flash file for Stratix 10 GX development kit

Hello Intel, I have the Stratix 10 GX development kit, and am needing to load a user design into the Flash for auto-configuration of the user design at power up. I've been following through the d...
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EBERLAZARE_I_Intel
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2 years ago

Hi,


Did you have the chance to test it?


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cconger
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2 years ago

Thank you for the reply. I am currently awaiting a license issue with Intel which I hope to be resolved any day now. I will absolutely update this post ASAP once I'm able to test it.

In the meantime, one additional piece of feedback I may offer that would be useful to include in the documentation update, would be to indicate where the nios2-elf-objcopy.exe file is located. Since the path to the executable not already part of the path variable upon launching the Nio2 command shell, I had to search for the executable with the following command:

find ./ -name "nios2-elf-objcopy.exe"

And it indicates the executable is located in the following directory:

[quartus_install_directory]/23.1/nios2eds/bin/gnu/H-x86_64-mingw32/bin

That is relatively hidden and some users may not know how to search within the shell, it would be much more convenient (and save Intel unnecessary service requests!) if this information was offered up front along with the steps to do the file conversion.