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14 years ago

custom Nios bootloader

Hello, I have a very small board containing ethernet phy, sdram and cyclone III fpga only. The fpga upload is done from another board, which has microcontroller on it, using passive serial mode. T...
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14 years ago

Yes, exactly. Just ensure that your bootloader software project is configured to place the code in the on-chip ram. application note 458 (http://www.altera.com/literature/an/an458.pdf) is about designing custom boot loaders and could help you in this task.