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9 years ago

Question about boot NIOS from Micron N25Q flash

Hi all, I am using arrow cyclone v soc kit, with a Cyclone V 5csxf6d6f31c6 chip which has a hardcore ARM-A9 inside. but i am not using this arm core, i am just working with nios purely on fpga sid...
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9 years ago

Hi Johi,

Thanks for your reply.

I downloaded a .jic file of LED Blinking and the board can boot successfully, so the flash chip should work fine. Since the board uses usb-blaster, it doesn't support .pof, but .jic only.

For the NIOS part, I tried Quartus in my company with license, but the same result. It can boot directly after programming, but when you power down and up, it can't boot.

frustrated...