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16 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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16 years ago

Do you mean read a file from a compact flash card, put it in memory and run the software? You'll need a bootloader a bit more complex than the EPCS one, or even the examples in the application note (http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an458.pdf?gsa_pos=1&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=nios%20boot).

Did you have a look at redboot (http://sourceware.org/redboot/)? It could do the trick but I don't know how easy it is to adapt to the design. It seems that you need to set up an Ecos kernel first.