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20 years ago

Coverting/Combining SOF and ELF for EPCS

I have developed a NIOS II module with some of my custom made components. It synthesizes into a .sof file. I develop some C code to run on this particular core. This is compiled into an .e...
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20 years ago

Trey,

Altera provides two converters: sof2flash and elf2flash. Creating a project in NIOS II IDE will generate a script file with appropriate parameters.

I've written a short programme in C to concatenate the resulting two S-records into one single binary file, which represents an EPCS image and can be used to update both FPGA configuration and booting firmware. You can add a call in a script file running in NIOS SDK shell. If you are interested, tell me where I can send it to.

Mike