APEX Nios Dev kit

To Kerri:

I'm a Newbie. And the board doesn't work in my hands after I obtained the board, maybe someone in my Lab made a mistake to the board.

1.

in the <nios 2.0> kit, I finds

standard_32_devboard.flash (552 KB (565,257 Byte))

standard_32.sof (238 KB (243,757 Byte))

but it doesn&#39;t work.

I wonder whether the following files are created by yourself ?

recovery_configuration_apex_20k200.sof

default_board_image_apex_20k200.flash

Would you like to send these files to me ( [email protected] -----Max. 8M attachment )

and " ns " is not a command !!! Download *.sof by Byteblaster???

2.

http://www.altera.com/literature/ds/ds_nio...pex_20k200e.pdf (http://www.altera.com/literature/ds/ds_nio...pex_20k200e.pdf)

P15 Table 2. Flash Memory Allocation : 0x100000-0x17FFFF(512KBytes) Nios instruction and nonvolatile data space.

How do the Nios fetch the instruction in the flash? How can I find more detail about the flash allocaton?

3.

Kerri, do you do experiments in the Apex Board wiht Quartus 1.1 and Nios 1.0?

Is it wise enough to buy a latest Cyclone(Stratix) Nios II dev. kit , as I finds more information is based on these kits.

Or I get the Nios II + Nios II IDE CDs and begin to applicate them in the Apex.