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21 years ago

Flash Programmer Question

Can anybody explain to me does Altera Flash Programmer places boot loader automatically before main programm at flash for copying main program to sdram or not? Or I must write my own boot loader a...
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21 years ago

i have a little workaround to get a valid EPCS file for updating boards out in the field.

I use my board at the lab, which is equipped with a jtag connector and a RS232 port, program it, using the NIOS 2 IDE flash-programmer. Then i wrote a little c-program, which dumps the EPCS content to the RS232 port. I simply use the run feature of the IDE to transfer it to the target, overwriting the main application in ram. A terminal program is used to save the output, which is formated as iHex file, in a file.

Thats it - it is not perfect, but it works for me...