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10 years ago

Flash Programmer, EPCS Reserved Fields are non-zero

Greetings -

While trying to program a Spansion S25FL032P Flash device on my EP4CE10E22 Cyclone-IV board with the Nios II Flash Programmer, I get the following error messages:

"Looking for EPCS registers at address 0x00011100

Initial values: 9300023.................

Not here: reserved fields are non-zero

No EPCS registers found: tried looking at addresses ..............

Error Code: 8"

Do I need an override file and what should go in it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,

Falcon234

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    --- Quote Start ---

    Greetings -

    While trying to program a Spansion S25FL032P Flash device on my EP4CE10E22 Cyclone-IV board with the Nios II Flash Programmer, I get the following error messages:

    "Looking for EPCS registers at address 0x00011100

    Initial values: 9300023.................

    Not here: reserved fields are non-zero

    No EPCS registers found: tried looking at addresses ..............

    Error Code: 8"

    Do I need an override file and what should go in it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you very much,

    Falcon234

    --- Quote End ---

    I was able to solve this problem myself. The Flash Programmer tool seems a bit finicky in that I needed to load my target image into the FPGA using the Quartus-II Programmer tool, within the Flash Programmer tool, immediately before clicking the Start button in the Flash Programmer tool window.
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    Altera_Forum
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    --- Quote Start ---

    Greetings -

    While trying to program a Spansion S25FL032P Flash device on my EP4CE10E22 Cyclone-IV board with the Nios II Flash Programmer, I get the following error messages:

    "Looking for EPCS registers at address 0x00011100

    Initial values: 9300023.................

    Not here: reserved fields are non-zero

    No EPCS registers found: tried looking at addresses ..............

    Error Code: 8"

    Do I need an override file and what should go in it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you very much,

    Falcon234

    --- Quote End ---

    And btw, I also needed the override file copied to the \bin directory. I added the entry:

    [EPCS-010215]# EPCS32N(lead-free)

    sector_size = 65536

    sector_count = 64