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15 years ago

Enet to Nios to CFI FLASH programming

Hi All, I have a question on implementing a remote update feature on a design - I have a dual stage bootloader that can select between 2 images that are at a fixed location in CFI flash, and I kno...
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15 years ago

this (http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an429.pdf) is one example. There's also the BUP (Board Update Portal) that ships with a lot of the kits, though I'm not sure source code is given for that. Both of these use the SREC/Flash format, parse it on the embedded side. Neither is all that efficient/fast...easy to improve upon.