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17 years ago

How to convert NIOS2 SW file to HEX

I need to program a CFI Flash (NOT EPCS) device that is attached to my Cyclone2 with both the HW and SW images. It appears one method that fits my needs is to follow appnote an478 and create a flash...
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17 years ago

Can you compile your bootloader into the regular project, thereby making one .elf that has everything in it? Maybe you could create two .elf's instead.

Either way, once you have the .elf use it to do the conversion...

nios2-elf-objcopy -O ihex file.elf output_file.hex