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10 years ago

Nios II EPCS booting problem

Hi, I am using DE0 nano and trying to boot Nios II from EPCS configuration device. I am following the procedure mentioned on this link (http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/epcs_bootloaders). Th...
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9 years ago

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Hi Danish.I meet the same problem.can you tell why should we do the step 9 and 10.thanks.

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These steps create a memory initialization file / boot loader to be used by EPCS controller during boot process.

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Thank you.I will have a try.

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49409&highlight=mem_init_generate

In the link. mellis mentiond " The FAE discovered that the NIOS II/e will not boot from the serial flash controller (Quartus 15.0) and the work-around is to use the NIOS II/f instead".

Is that right?