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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

The init stuff was in the advanced boot loader. I did this:

  • Took out the init stuff

  • Set the system timer to none in the BSP

  • Changed the device configuration to active serial in the device and pin options (this is wrong, mine is active parallel)

And now the LED is flashing on power up :D No idea which one of these things made a difference.

I'm going to run with this, hopefully I can handle it from here! Thanks so much for your help.

By the way I figured out the other clock was because timing fails without it. Whoever worked on this before must have discovered that.