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15 years ago

Programming a flash device with the parallel flash loader

Hello I need to program a flash device using the parallel flash loader megafunction. The flash is not a configuration device, but is rather used to boot a processor up. The problem is that...
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15 years ago

The objcopy utility can probably do that. It is part of the GNU toolchain, which is something that you may already have installed. In a cross-compiling toolchain the file name would normally begin with a target prefix, e.g. nios2-elf-objcopy or arm-eabi-objcopy etc. A bin to hex conversion is normally architecture-independent, so it doesn't really matter which toolchain to use.

I'm not sure if objcopy and Quartus II programmer speak the same .hex, but most likely they do.