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14 years ago

Building RBF with SOF and ELF, External SDRAM

Hi All, I am looking for information on how to concatenate a .elf and a .sof file into a single .rbf file. The elf file loads Nios data and instructions into an external SDRAM. Any information/sugges...
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14 years ago

Quartus already does RBF file output, You have to select an option to enable rbf generation. For ELF, You need to convert it to HEX using elf-to-hex and later You need a 3rd party tool to convert HEX to BIN. Remember, that RBF file is LSB 1st afaik, so You need to do a bit swap.