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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Is there a quicker way to flash new firmware on the Stratix GX 5 Dev kit board?

Greetings! The Stratix GX 5 Dev Kit is my first time using any altera device or software (I'm more familiar with Xilinx). I am trying to program the FPGA with a new version of firmware and I'm...
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12 years ago

The quartus II programmer can only be used when you want to program a FPGA only file, to use it in combination with a NIOS II elf file can be a complex situation.

I'm wondering why the documentation uses the Nios command line and not the "nios II flash programmer" in the eclipse environment, it should do the same