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20 years ago

Creating Target Board Help

Hi there, We have a design that uses a EP2C35 FPGA and we are having difficulty in making the target board to be used in SOPC Builder. First off I notice that the way the Target Board was...
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20 years ago

Hi Todd,

It is not as difficult as you imagine to make a target board. Just follow the instructions of mk_target_board command till you get the SOPC builder system which is automaticlly generated.

Do not add or remove any component from the SOPC Builder system. You will see the ASMI component, let it be. EPCS controller=ASMI+bootloader, but here you need not EPCS controller. mk_target_board is only needed when using flash programmer under Nios II IDE. It is used to burn your hardware and/or software image to FLASH, and has nothing to do with your "real" application.

If you do want to modify the SOPC Builder system, you can reduce the buffer size because there is maybe an error on the document.

Cheers,