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20 years ago

EPCS Controller & Altera development board

I am trying to implement a EPCS controller on the Altera Development board but I am having a bit of trouble. I am using of the the Altera design examples for the EP2C35 with VHDL code. The version ...
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20 years ago

Scott's right. You can store your code in the EPCS, but you cannot _run_ your code from there. By telling the IDE to link your .text section into the EPCS controller, you are pointing it at the small onchip memory that is part of the controller.

If you want to store code in this device, you have to program it using the flash programmer.

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