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15 years ago

Including software in the FPGA configuration bitstream

I need to put my Nios II software project into my FPGA bitstream. I have an idea on how to do it, please comment: 1) Build software .elf file 2) In Nios console, use elf2hex to make hex fil...
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15 years ago

Its been working this way for my co workers and I since version 7 of Quartus and Nios IDE I believe. It has worked this way since we started using Altera products and Nios. Works the same way on several of our PC's at work running different versions of Quartus and Nios IDE and Windows. They are all picking up the .hex files and including them in our Quartus builds automatically.

when you setup a memory in SOPC builder, it asks you about initialization of the memory.