program external nor flash (paralell) through cyclone iv (de0 nano)

Hey!

Thanks for the replies! Sorry for my late reply, I didnt get the notice from the email notification :(.

Well I am a little stuck in between a Cyclone IV fpga or a Atxmega128..

The last days I started to study how to get the flash programmed via a ATXMega128 mcu with C code just to try and understand it since I have 0 experience with programming FPGAs.

Programming the AVR in C is quite simple but I will also need to code a win app for sending the BIN files throu the usb to the AVR.. wich I think would be simpler to do with altera?

I do have the DE0 Nano board and would really love to use that one if possible. The difference is that for the FPGA i just have an "empty" cpu and I feel that I am not sure how to start? (use the nios cpu? make my own??)

Since I cant use C programming (not that Im any good yet but), but instead learn Verilog or VHDL.. But then again, for the task at hand it might be simpler to program the flashes throu the fpga than bitbanging them all throu the AVR?

Hmm..

The main usage for the FPGA / AVR will be to program flash memories in this project so what do you think?