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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

Can I make stand-alone NiosII system?

Hi,all. I am going to build the stand-alone NiosII system. Already, I could build PC-connecting NiosII system but I don't know how to build the stand-alone (so PC-NOT-connecting) NiosII system....
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14 years ago

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This is what I mean about baking the software right into the .sof file:

1) Generate your system in SOPC Builder/Qsys, make sure a large on-chip memory is present and it is configured to be pre-initialized.

2) Create and compile your software, ensure that a .hex file is created for the on-chip memory

3) Compile your hardware design in Quartus

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How do I do step# 2? I can't find a setting in the Nios tool to do this. Once I have this, do I then use this .hex file in QSYS on-chip memory configuration in place of the default "onchip_mem.hex"?