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ABren1
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6 years ago

Is it possible to initialize external RAM (ERAM) from the JTAG .sof or EPCS .pof file?

(i) By modifying the BSP to include the new region and section that points to ERAM (ii) Include in NIOS2 code declaration of global variable and instantiation of variable in that section using "__at...
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6 years ago

​Thanks JohnT,

Is this also the case for the .pof file programmed into the config device or does the .pof programmed EPCS provide loading of code & data space automatically

regardless of memory location? The reason I ask this is it appears that bootloaders can load into external RAM directly.

Unable to reply till Monday and once again Thanks JohnT