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21 years ago

a question of download

Assume there are helloworld.c uart.c receive.c and so on.Now,I want to download them to flash,how to do it?Begin,I think I can only download a .srec to flash.In the end ,I found It can download several *.srec to flash.How to do it?

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    Need a little more info.

    If you're using NIOS II they have provided a flash programmer in the new IDE. If you use NIOS I then someone here can give you a hand (never don't it myself).
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    originally posted by badomen@Aug 19 2004, 06:48 AM

    need a little more info.

    if you're using nios ii they have provided a flash programmer in the new ide. if you use nios i then someone here can give you a hand (never don't it myself).

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    I use NIOS I,please give me the more information.
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    On the altera site I think there is a flash "bootloader" document. That should give you a pretty good idea of how to do it.

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    It sounds like those three .c files are all part of one project correct? When they are built using nios-build in the Nios SDK, it should create one .srec file that represents the entire program, say for instance hello_world_complete.srec. Using the srec2flash utility you can convert that .srec to a .flash file. Running nios-run on the resulting .flash file programs it into flash. The GERMS monitor running on Nios handles all the flash programming details.

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    It sounds like those three .c files are all part of one project correct? Yes ,It is.When they are built using nios-build in the Nios SDK, it should create one .srec file that represents the entire program, say for instance hello_world_complete.srec. Why it should create one .srec file that represents the entire program.I don't think so.I mean how to download several .flash files to the ext_flash.Let me see a flash "bootloader" document on the altera web site.

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    Not sure what that was about.

    Have you searched this forum yet (downloading to flash is a common topic here)
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    I have searched on this forum.But I did not get any useful information.If you know how to do it?Please give me a hand?

    Good luck and godspeed.