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10 years ago

EPCQ Bootloader problems

Quartus 15.0, Cyclone V design I'm booting the FPGA from a Micron N25Q128 SPI flash and am trying to transition my NIOS to boot from SPI flash instead of onchip RAM. I've read all of the app n...
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10 years ago

Solution:

I opened an SR on this topic and got my local FAE from Arrow involved as well. The FAE discovered that the NIOS II/e will not boot from the serial flash controller (Quartus 15.0) and the work-around is to use the NIOS II/f instead. I posted this information to the SR and asked Altera to update the documentation to reflect this limitation, but I thought I would post the information here as well so that it shows up on Google searches.

Michael