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17 years ago

Nios hardware and software integration

I'm developing a project based on Nios II CPU, and would like to integrate the hardware (.sof) and software (Nios C/C++ application) into a bit stream file. However, I don't know how to do with it. D...
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17 years ago

The bit stream can only configure the FPGA itself, not the external components. What you need for that is a bootloader that will recover the software and copy it to the external memory. That is what the EPCS bootcode does from the flash memory.