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10 years ago

ELF file size issue from Nios II

Hi, I started learning FPGA. Bought MAX10 development kit which has 10M08SAE144C8GESE chip. I created basic system using Qsys guide. Imported qip file into Quartus and made a basic bsf file ...
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10 years ago

Quick check on your Qsys.

1. Memory size is 10kBytes

2. Nios II/e

3. 1 bit PIO output

I see your confusion. The elf file size has no impact on the actual Nios II codes. In fact, your program size is just 2308 Bytes.

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11870&stc=1

You can go ahead and download the program. It should work. The elf is somewhat larger because it has additional information for the tool to read in order understand where the .text, RW pointers to be downloaded into the Nios memory.