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20 years ago

FPGA design & user program in EPCS?

I'd like to put both my FPGA design and my user code into an EPCS device. I've figured out how to put the FPGA design into the EPCS via JIC file but it's not entirely clear to me how the ...
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20 years ago

Scott,

Thanks for the info. I did what you suggest and it worked. The FlashProgrammer tool in the IDE works as well and, of course, does essentially the same thing although the order of burning the SOF and the ELF is reversed. I guess the --relocate takes care of that.

I'm still not clear about the reset address - if I set the reset address to RAM or regular flash, wouldn't the CPU crash when it jumps there and finds garbage. In other words, wouldn't loading the user program out of the EPCS necessitate a reset address set to the EPCS?

I'll try this later but I don't want to wait for a recompile right now.

Thanks,

Andrew