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17 years ago

bootloading doesn't starts

I've have a system in CycloneIII EP3C40 with, NIOS + CFI_Flash + .... I want to write in flash .sof & .elf files to boot entire system from flash memory. My application is running fine if ...
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17 years ago

Daixiwen describes the problem well. Below is the info I received from Altera tech support. The workaround corrected the problem for me.

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> This is a bug of Nios II flash programmer tool v9.0. The behavior of this bug is that NiosII on Cyclone III does not boot up from EPCS if you

> programmed SOF and ELF with v9.0 Flash Programmer.

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> The workaround:

> replace 90\nios2eds\bin\sof2flash.jar with 81\nios2eds\bin\sof2flash.jar

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