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13 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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13 years ago

Yes, You need a bootloader, which would fit into on-chip memory. This bootloader will have to copy Nios program from flash to SDRAM and start it.