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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

I'm still using that ancient IDE tool. :D I downloaded it a couple of months ago.

Is there an advantage to use the SBT version?

I think we tried using it and had some problems with the BSP portion. I'm the only guy here doing the work of a team of people so I just use whatever works as I don't have much time to spend learning new tools. But yes, I see that we are using legacy software (IDE). It seems to work well.