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16 years ago

Programming a custom board without flash memory

I have a custom board (Stratix-II with an EP2S90F1020C3). Right now the functionallity is only described in HDL and it's working fine. However, the board does NOT have any flash memory. Now I w...
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16 years ago

Yeah, of course I always update the configuration after any changes in Quartus ... and I also know that it's more a problem of the Quartus project.

I'm pretty sure that the SOPC file is okay, since it's so simple; same for the NIOS software ... As 'Daixiwin' said, I should be able to download the software even without flash memory.

However there's probably something wrong within my Quartus project and I dunno what exactly ... whether it's about the PIN assignment (I only have clk and reset so there are also not to many possibilities) or maybe the timing constraints. The error message is a litte bit strange for this kind of problem (since I dont have problems to download the *.sof only when I try to download the software)