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10 years ago

Converting .sof and .elf to make single .pof

Hi Everybody, I am in the process of buying Licence for IP Which I used in my program. Till now I am testing my program with time_limited.sof file for FPGA and .elf file for NIOSII and It ...
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10 years ago

You can safely ignore the EPCS128 message, some Quartus command line tools write this when using EPCS, even when using a different size.

As ted suggested, check the NIOS configuration in QSys. Its reset vector should be set to the EPCS controller so that the CPU tries to load the elf file from the EPCS flash at boot up.

EDIT: this suggestion was only if you had both the FPGA design and the software in the EPCS. But as you say you are putting the software into a CFI flash, this doesn't apply. Please read my next message instead.