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21 years ago

Contents of EPCS

In order to make a complete EPCS4-update by a running NIOS II system itself, I need to know how the content of the EPCS is build. I've figured out: - the first part is FPGA configuration wit...
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21 years ago

In an EPCS you need to store the following data into the device:

- At address 0, the bitswapped FPGA configuration.

- Immediately after the FPGA configuration, data blocks for the bootloader (see the bootloader sources for details of their format.

You can use elf2flash to generate the data blocks from an elf file.