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Naji_Naufel_Arrow
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5 years ago

How to leave unused UFM Flash on MAX10 blank (0xFF)

I use the UFM to store my NIOS code but I reserve Sector 1 (16kB) for data storage (Liker Script). I use "Convert Programming File" to merge the .sof and .hex to make a .pof. After configuration, a...
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JohnT_Altera
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5 years ago

Hi,

I have check with engineering, unfortunately there is no way to implement it into the Nios II as the "make mem_init_generate" is automated from the tools.

I would recommend you to use Quartus to modify it.

  1. Open the Hex file and use the default word size
  2. Highlight by dragging the starting location to the end location that you would like to modify
  3. Right click on the highlighted cell and select "Fill cells with 1's"
  4. Save the file
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    Naji_Naufel_Arrow
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    5 years ago

    Thank you. I will try it.