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8 years ago

Cyclone IV : boot nios from epcs

Dear all, I'm trying to run the nios directly from the flash (epcs16) on startup, but even if I apply step by step instructions on different files given by Altera, I never succeeded (the fpga w...
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8 years ago

Hi,

Thanks for you answer.

When I programmed the FPGA with a .pof or .jic file containing only the SOF, the FPGA configuration worked. Then, I added the nios code to the POF and the FPGA also worked.

I'm going to try with the mem_ini_generate, and I'll set the generated hex file to the absolute address + 1 after the FPGA bitstream.

Thank you