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14 years ago

Programming EPCS with FPGA config and NIOS II with AS

Hello, Please excuse me for this newby question. I have configured a NIOS II processor for a FPGA and written a small program. The NIOS II processor has a EPCS-interface for programming the ...
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14 years ago

If your Nios software image (the .elf) file is in the flash then you need the EPCS controller in the SOPC builder project so that the CPU can boot and load the software from the flash. You can only use the pins for something else if you have other means of loading the software.