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17 years ago

Programming and booting a non-NIOS embedded apllicatio

Hi, I wonder if anybody have already tried or can share ideas how to load a non-NOIS embedded program into a configuration EPCS device or separate SPI or CFI flash by means of the Quartus/NIOS ...
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17 years ago

So for loading the code into the EPCS.

1 - You can use the Quartus programmer to do this.

2 - You could use the nios2-flash-programmer but you would have to create a dummy firmware project that just had a NIOS II processor and the epcs controller. So to program data into the flash, you would have to load your dummy firmware image then run the programmer.

3 - You could use your own method for programming the EPCS flash using your TSK3000 processor.

For my projects, in manufacturing I use JTAG to program an image into the FPGA. I then either

a) use the nios2-flash-programmer

b) transfer data over ethernet and program the EPCS flash using my own methods.

Jake