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13 years ago

NIOS II and Cyclone III Remote Update

Have spent several days now searching and reading and think I am nearly there... but not quite. I am using the NIOS II core with SOPC builder. I use Quartus II for the FPGA image. This is a projec...
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13 years ago

You can probably just put the boot code into a user-defined internal memory block, and point the nios reset vector at it.

That would remove the problems of the sopc builder repeatedly substituting its own file.

After all, I presume that is what happens anyway.

It would also let you use TCM for the boot code (probably more useful for the JTAG block though since you are probably copying code to SDRAM and have an instruction cache anyway).