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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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19 years ago

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Do you know if there&#39;s a way to initiate FPGA (re)configuration cleanly from software/firmware ? (alt_shoot_yourself_in_foot perhaps)[/b]

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Most of the Altera designs do this by using the "reconfig_request" PIO. On the Altera boards, this pin is connected to a small design in an on-board Max device. Though I&#39;ve not tried it, you should be able to do something similar by routing your nConfig pin to another I/O pin on your FPGA.

Cheers,

- slacker