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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

How to program a flash using a normal programmer

We have a project of Nios I, my question is when we produce this board, we should program the flash using a normal programmer before it is put on PCB. We use srec2flash and hex2flash to generate ...
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20 years ago

Since you your project is based on nios I, you can not use the flash programmer tool under nios II IDE where flash programming is much more easier.

But even if you use nios I, you are not forced to program flash by using normal programmer. You can burn your hardware, software and other images to flash seperately by using RS232 UART. It's applicable in spite of slowness.

Attention: You shall put the images to their appropriate locations.