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10 years ago

Booting NIOSII from .sof File

Hello, I am trying to boot the NIOS II from an .SOF file using memory initialization files (later, I want to boot from the .JIC file, which also doesn't work, but I want to start with this exam...
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10 years ago

Proper way is to use EPCS controller in QSYS and boot using NiosII default bootloader (you would need that for larger code). In order to boot from on-chip RAM ( for very small code) you would need to edit your linker script from BSP Editor tool and set .text region point to that memory.