Honored ContributorI recently inherited a design that uses a custom VHDL module on a MAXII to read a configuration from from flash, and program a Cyclone II.
Before it loads the image, it reads a timestamp and an image size out of the image-area in memory. Are there any binary formats that would contain this information, or do you think whoever designed this was using a script or something to generate their own programming files?
Honored ContributorYou may have a look at:
http://www.altera.com/support/examples/tcl/tcl-date-time-stamp.html I hope it helps.Honored ContributorI don't expect generating a timestamp to be much of a problem. I'm more worried about inserting it into a binary image. I realize I could just create a script to make my own custom binary with a header that contains some information like the length of the image and a timestamp, but I'd like to know if something like that already exists.
Maybe the .pof already contains this information. I don't know much about the file format. Is there a good description of it anywhere?Honored ContributorNIOS 2 boot images have a timestamp in them. Reference this document for more information.
http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an458.pdf?gsa_pos=3&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=nios%20boot%20loader Jake
