Nios II EPCS booting problem

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Follow these steps:

Nios II Booting using Default EPCS Bootloader:

1- Add EPCS Flash Controller in Qsys

2- Connect the Clk input of EPCS Flash Loader IP to a separate clock of < 25Mhz

3- Set Reset Vector offset of NiosII to the Base Address of EPCS Flash Loader.

4- Set Exception vector to any On Chip RAM

5- Generate Qsys

6- Open BSP Editor and set all linker regions to SDRAM / onchip memory

7- Generate BSP and Build the BSP project

8- Build Your C code and obtain *.elf

9- Goto make targets->Build and run "mem_init_generate"

10- From mem_init folder include *.qip file in your Quartus project and recompile to get *.SOF

11- copy *.SOF and *.elf files in a separate folder i.e /output

12- perform following in NiosII command Shell:

1. Create a flash file for the hardware and software image

sof2flash --input=<hwimage>.sof --output=hwimage.flash --epcs --verbose

elf2flash --input=<elf file>.elf --output=swimage.flash --epcs --after=hwimage.flash --verbose

2. Convert the flash images into Hex files

nios2-elf-objcopy -I srec -O ihex hwimage.flash hwimage.hex

nios2-elf-objcopy -I srec -O ihex swimage.flash swimage.hex

3. Generate *.JIC file

Create your jic file using Quartus® II Convert Programming File tool, add the Flash Loader and

both hex files with absolute addressing option selected.

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Hi Danish, Thanks for the guidelines. I'm still struggling to get it to boot. I'm not sure how to implement step 10 of your guidelines. How do I 'include *.qip file' in my Quartus project? I'm using Quartus 12 sp2. There is no include option in Eclipse or Quartus. I finished up selecting Add/Remove Files in Project... in Quartus but you said 'From mem_init folder include *.qip file in your Quartus project'. Please advise?