Gigabit Ethernet Interface (via Marvell 88E1111) with Cyclone IVE FPGA

Hi,

I need one information.

There are two ways to program FPGA for Hardware:

1. JTAG (Temporary)

2. Active Serial (Permanent)

In this ethernet case, If I run some application program written in C language (Software) using NIOS ii Eclipse on this generated hardware, How I can load this application software program on FPGA permanently?

This is clear to me that:

1. For Hardware programming: Choose Active Serial

2. But for Software: ???? I mean as long as I am connected to the FPGA board with NIOSII Eclipse via USB Blaster, it works but when I quit NIOSII Eclipse, it will no works anymore. Is there anyway to load also this application program software to the FPGA permanently alongside the Hardware. So that both Hardware and software work independently on the FPGA board regardless of whether they are connected to Quartus II and NIOS ii Eclipse or not.

I am sorry if my question is so obvious.