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15 years ago

Changing the bootloader HEX file in the NIOS II IDE

This is with NIOS II 8.1 although I'll be moving to 10.1 and will need to do this: I'm trying to use a custom bootloader (loaded in EPCS) without changing the hardware (in SOPC Builder). The r...
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15 years ago

The SREC location that gets pulled in during EPCS component generation can vary, but for the last few versions (9.1 onwards) it's been at: 

"$ENV{QUARTUS_ROOTDIR}/../ip/altera/nios2_ip/altera_nios2/boot_loader_epcs_sii_siii_ciii.srec"

Incidentally, you can determine this for yourself by just looking at the em_epcs.pl Perl file responsible for generating the component.

Best Regards,

-- slacker