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Honored ContributorApplication code residing in the EPCS
Has anyone used the EPCS controller to hold 100% of your application code? We are pin limited and I was considering giving it a whirl. Any idea of how long the boot loader in the FPGA takes to copy...
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Honored ContributorQuestions for Jesse..
[if you really need to know the time I'd suggest playing with a system where Nios reset to a small on-chip memory that fired off a timer, and then jumped to the EPCS peripheral (to start its boot-loader).] How do you jump to the EPCS peripheral? If you configure the SOPC to have the reset location pointing to the EPCS, does the boot-loader (256 byte one) automatically load the code for you? How do you tell it where to load the code (which RAM if you have more than one)? Rick
