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15 years ago

EPCS: Free memory?

Hi all! I have a cyclone2 board including EPCS device. On the cyclone2 i have got a nios2 running. The configuration for the cyclone2 and the software for the nios2 come from the EPCS device. ...
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15 years ago

You are right Slacker. I assumed Fred already knows how to retrieve the information from elf file.

For your convenience, this is what I use. 

 sof2flash --epcs --input=fpga_project.sof --output=fpga_hardware.flash
 elf2flash  --epcs --after=project_hw.flash --input=nios_project.elf --output=nios_firmware.flash

The above commands generate the files I use for epcs programming. Since the .flash files are in ASCII format, I usually open the nios_firmware.flash with a text editor, go to the end of file where I can easily read the highest epcs address used.