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10 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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10 years ago

Last time I looked at the HAL code for bit-banging epcq it always does an erase before a write.

So your writes have to cover a full flash sector.

That HAL code is a typical Altera example of making something that should be a few 100

instructions into kilobytes of code that doesn't let you do anything other than the precise

action that some class/tutorial reqired.