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11 years ago

boot NIOS and FPGA from EPCS flash

Hi all, I am having problems booting up my Nios C code from EPCS. I am building my own FPGA board, not using a demo board. I'm using Quartus 15.0 and DE0 NanoBoard( Cyclone IV as FPGA) My app...
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11 years ago

The EPCS is not directly addressable. You need to get a small boot loader program and load that into an embedded memory and set the embedded memory as the reset vector. Check out the wiki article http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/epcs_bootloaders