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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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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- Understood. But the bootloader is run by Nios and Nios needs to access the EPCS through the Qsys interface. In order for that to happen don't I need to export the EPCS interface wires to some pins? Or you sa that this gets done automatically without exporting the pins to the top level entity? --- Quote End --- By default, it gets done automagically.You can do it manually, but there's no point unless you want to use a second EPCS device which isn't the one used for configuration.
