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13 years ago

Is it possible to write a design over PCIe into Flash?

Hi everyone, I have the following problem: I'm working on a device with a JTAG interface which is only accessable while the device is outside its case. Once it is in its case the JTAG interfa...
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12 years ago

The slow nios are free - but are still quite a lot of LUTs.

I'm not sure how small you can make one!

But I'd expose the soft reset line and memory to the PCIe so you can copy down the code and then take the processor out of reset.

Hmmm... isn't the flash writing code released as C source?

That probably means you can compile it for your host!