Programming and booting a non-NIOS embedded apllicatio

Jake,

thank you once again. Now I've got a much better insight in your idea.

Here's my understanding of your approach in form what I shall do with estimation how it might be complex or easy for me to implement:

1) adapt the APCS component from you to interface to my processor. I see no problem with it. As I understand, there's no need to change the EPCS interface of the core, if I use a standard Altera device;

2) modify my bootloader to make it able to copy the program out of the EPCS in the SRAM. Currently it can boot only from an SPI-Flash hooked up on five standard IO-pins of the FPGA. Here I fill a need to study more in-depth what and to what to change.

3) Use the changed and compiled bootloader as a .mif for the ROM block in the EPCS.

What file shall I take for that - the executable .elf? No special tricks or actions else?

Valmar