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17 years ago

Remote system upgrade with AS of Stratix II and EPCS16

Hello, I'm planning to use Stratix II (EP2S30) for a design, and want to have the option to remotely upgrade my firmware/Nios II software. Now, in the early design stages, I'm trying to see what h...
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17 years ago

It is tight, but you could most likely get away with it..... BUT ....

Unless your NIOS II code is all in the internal RAM of the FPGA memory, you will need additional space in the EPCS to store the NIOS II code that will get moved by the bootloader from the EPCS to something like SRAM or DRAM.

Go with the 64 and be done with it.