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14 years ago

Terasic DE2-115 Flash programming

Good morning, Have been developing FPGA and NIOS-based SW for DE2-115 using USB blaster to load SOF and elf files for debugging. Now want to permanently program FPGA and FLASH. Have been ...
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14 years ago

Thanks for the step by step process Mark.

Ok, so I got my program working this morning, but in order to do so I had to slow down my UART. It looks like the program runs much faster in RAM 'Run as NIOS II Hardware' versus running out of flash.

Does anyone know if the boot process automatically loads the program into RAM upon startup? How do i use the command:

ALT_LOAD_SECTION_BY_NAME(<section_name>)

any examples on this?