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Avgerinos
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7 years ago

Can I get support for more flash devices for the Generic QUAD SPI controller II?

In our pcb design we use the Cypress S25FS256S flash device. I would like to use this flash to boot a nios ii application, hex file. In order to do that I need to be able to use the Generic QUAR SPI ...
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7 years ago

QUAD SPI controller II is officially supporting those flash devices available in the IP list, ie more specifically EPCQ and Micron https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/ug/ug_embedded_ip.pdf, 22.1.1. Sorry to tell that we could not evaluate other various flash in the market. You could try to evaluate it when you have the board as that flash may be compatible . Are you considering to implement supported flash from the list which has the same footprint just in case it is fail to boot up?