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16 years ago

Fail to Boot Software from EPCS16

Hi, I have made a simple custom system with a EP3C16Q240, EPCS16,SDRAM,an AS connector,a JTAG connector and a 50Mhz system clock in which MSEL[0:2]=[010],VCCIO=3.3V.The SOPC contains a cpu with re...
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16 years ago

Hi, Lance,

Have you prove with 'no code at reset' in nios bsp settings? As I've read, the epcs controller loads the reset code automatically into its own on-chip memory and the .text section can be placed at ram. So when you do 'run as..' the .text is placed at ram and the execution starts at '_start', and you don't use epcs. I think it wouldn`t fail.

(I might be wrong, because I haven´t try this yet, but i think it should work this way)