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12 years ago

.elf file explained?

Hello! I have just watched the ALTERA Embedded Design Flow video tutorial and at some point at the end it is explained how the user can program a flash memory with: - A boot loader - The...
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12 years ago

Haha I liked the IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), never heard it before!!

Basically my application is not very demanding. I just need to have everything (.SOF, .ELF running only in SDRAM plus heap stack also in SDRAM) stored in the EPCS and on-power on the FPGA gets configured and the Nios starts reading instructions from the SDRAM.

If this operation involves a boot loader that is created automatically and does not need me to incorporate the EEPROM interface so as to copy the elf to SDRAM then it fits me well.

Is this process automatic?