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9 years ago

Cyclone III + EPCS4 + UART remote upgrade

Hi ALL, I have a custom logic design in a Cyclone III FPGA (EP3C10). The configuration is stored in a EPCS4 configuration device and I am using AS scheme to configure the FPGA at factory. Also, there...
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8 years ago

I didn't use the BeMicro example, so I can only try to guess the reason of the problem.

Usually Quartus generates a FPGA configuration image in the form of a .sof file, while the embedded sw tools build into a .elf file the Nios program image. What you probably need to do is to convert these files in the proper format required by the sample project, using the sof2flash utility:

sof2flash --epcs --input=factory_hw.sof --output=factory_hw.flash