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13 years ago

Cyclone IV and Nios II Firmware Update

Hallo Everybody, I would like you guys to suggest a solution for the problem below: I have successfully updated the hardware and software configurations of my project on the EPCS device ...
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13 years ago

Ok.. Here is the thing. I used the flash file i am programming, and used the Nios2-flash-programmer to program my flash. It works great. See below the log.

bash-3.1$ nios2-flash-programmer --epcs --base=0x3001800 "c:/User/kaushik/WIDri

ve/flash/Firmware.flash" --program --erase-all --go

Using cable "USB-Blaster [USB-0]", device 1, instance 0x00

Resetting and pausing target processor: OK

Checksummed/read 896kB in 21.2s

Erased 7680kB in 95.1s (80.7kB/s)

Programmed 881KB +15KB in 6.8s (131.7KB/s)

Did not attempt to verify device contents

Starting processor at reset vector (0x03001800)

If you see the last but one line it says, programmed 881KB + 15kB. What is this 15 kB.. Is it more metadata required for the correct booting of the system??