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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

copy flash possible?

I need to duplicate the image that we have flashed onto another device. We do not have a copy of this on a computer any more. We have a "Bit Blaster" as well as a parallel port software key. We ...
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14 years ago

ok good morning

if you need to copy all contents of your flash you can use

nios2-flash-programmer --base="baseadd" --read-bytes="addfrom"+"addto" --read flash.flash

this command copy you flash content from "addfrom" to "addto" address to file flash.flash ....... you can write this file to another flash or open in hex editor and modify it.

good luck

Franz Wagner