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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

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originally posted by wombat@Dec 8 2004, 06:00 AM

mir,

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for epcs the bootloader is stored in an on-chip rom so the .flash file here should contain a set of data blocks, each containing length, address, data. this sounds like what you've got.

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There is obviously a difference in .flash files generated by NIOS IDE after linking to .elf (" ... Post-processing to create epcs_controller_boot_rom.flash ") and .flash files generated by the Flash Programmer.

Mike