Erasing/Programming EPCS via NIOS

Hi,

I have the same problem here but I didn't go into that detail as you already did. I rather decided to submit a service request to Altera in order to have them put hands on that issue. In my case, we were running fine with programming the EPCS devices through JTAG so far. Then we got new devices (same type/model) in and we started to face this problem. I mean, we have proof that it basically works. There might be some minor changes that we probably missed. I also double-checked the design and configuration and ended up finding nothing. To work around that problem for a while we were trying to find a way to programm the EPCS device through AS since this still works. But unfortunately it seems like there's no way to get the actual NIOS II code through that interface. The one and only way seems to be JTAG -> FPGA -> EPCS? Or does anybody know how to convert and include an .elf file (NIOS II binary) into a .pof file which I can eventually program onto the EPCS device?

Folks, whenever I have new from Altera I keep you updated!

Steffen