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20 years ago

EPCS can't be THIS slow

I used the CycloneII dev-kit from altera for a project with uCLinux and a NiosII. To save some $$ I'm trying to configure the FPGA from the EPCS64 and load the kernel from the same EPCS64 thus el...
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20 years ago

Hi wgoossens,

1. Did you select the fast mode for EPCS? with hardwire mode select pins?

2. You should try boot from on chip memory, copy(or decompress) EPCS data to dram,

then boot linux out of dram. Running directly on EPCS is very slow.

Hippo