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Altera_Forum
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17 years agoBooting From Flash
We are interested in using a external flash memory device to store our firmware for our multi-processor design. To boot from this flash device does it need to be CFI compliant or this there other typ...
Altera_Forum
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17 years agoassume nios cpu 0 tries to programm the cfi flash, then no other nios cpu or any other master should access the cfi flash as it disturbs the programming algorithm. have a look at the datasheet of these cfi flash devices. there is a given access order you must use otherwise it could happen that the cfi flash wont accept a programming information due to an out of order access from a different master. in that case the programming cpu won't notice that and you will hardly dig down your false cfi flash programming.