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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

EPCS flash access on BeMicro

Hi, I am doing some debugging using the BeMicro Cyclone III dev board. I have installed a serial configuration device on the board and I want to test the SOPC EPCS Flash controller. I am not u...
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15 years ago

When you state that the HAL does not detect the EPCS device what do you mean? Where does the HAL initialization routine fail? Is the EPCS's device/silicon ID successfully read? You can step through this code by setting a break point before the epcs_controller's initialization call and step through it to see what's happening.

Also, have you tried the "Memory Test" example design? It has some routines that test EPCS devices as well as CFI flash devices.

Cheers,

-slacker