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Honored ContributorContents 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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Honored ContributorThe boot-loader .srec is not put into the EPCS flash; it resides in the EPCS controller *inside* the FPGA. This controller has a small on-chip memory that contains the simple boot-loader code; and is used when you point the CPU reset vector to the EPCS controller.
As wombat points out, the only two things that our flash programmer would normally put into the EPCS device itself are FPGA configuration and/or your software flash image.
