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4 years ago

MAX 10 booting from external QSPI

Hello, I am trying to boot a NIOS II processor simple design (Hello World) from an external QSPI flash(software application). I am using MAX 10 FPGA Development Kit. I tried all 3 external flash opti...
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4 years ago

Thank you for your response!

Yes, I followed the instructions on the edh_ed_handbook and also the ones on the AN730.

The system works when I use the flash device from the development kit(N25Q512A83) but when I try to use the flash chip that we need to use in our application: GD25Q16 the MAX10/NIOS_II project fails to boot. I can load the software .hex file into the flash device, but the MAX 10 fails to boot. I tried with both flash interfaces: the "Generic_Serial_Flash_interface" and Generic_Quad_SPI_Controller. No luck.

Can you please help me with the changes that need to be done in order to use a GD25Q16 flash device? If helps I can send you the project.