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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

A problem of programming flash...

Hi all, I meet a new problem when programming flash in NiosII IDE. Just because the err popped during regeneration, I removed the epcs_controller from the components list ...
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20 years ago

Hi Don,

> So how could this file be so large that cannot be

> programmed into the Flash chip,whose size is 2M ?

> Could anyone tell me why this happen?

Because _now_ you're writing into U15, which is an EPCS1 device which has a

128 KB capacity (split between the configuration data and your app) -- not U8

which is the parallel flash device (2 MB).

Don, if want to find a solution, you shouldn't keep changing the problem ;-)

Good Luck,

--Scott