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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

I'm aware that Quartus already does RBF file output. There are some finer points that i'm curious about.

1. If I build an SOF with the nios elf file included, can it be converted to an RBF that will initialize the nios memory?

2. If nios memory is in external SDRAM, will the RBF initialize SDRAM?

3. Has anyone done this?

Best regards, V