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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

I'd start doing what I would do to debug a bootloader....

Find some simple peripheral (like a LED) and see if I can make it work (eg flash).

That gives you some confidence that you stand a chance of actually booting something.

If you have a UART it is a bit easier - you can write single bytes to the fifo and follow the progress.