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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

using extra space in serial rom

Hello, I would like some suggestions on whether the following is possible: I have a custom board with an EPC28 Cyclone II FPGA and a EPCS4 config rom. There is a single 10-pin connector to the ...
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16 years ago

Are you using a Nios2 CPU? In that case you can use the nios tools to add a binary file to the flash and can use the SOPC EPCS controller to access it.

If you don't use any CPU there must be a way of telling Quartus to flash specific data to a part of the flash but I don't know how. Never looked for that...