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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

help: data read from not same as the *.flash file,why?

hi, i downloaded the *.flash into flash, and run the program successfully, i read the data from ext_flash in nios program, and found it's not the same as the *.flash i used, why?
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17 years ago

This is because the .flash file is an s-record, which is different than the binary format you would read from the flash chip.

S-records contain additional information about the data, such as where to put it in memory.