Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
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 ...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
20 years ago

Hi hjia,

> We use srec2flash and hex2flash to generate the .flash file

> But what I mean is to program the flash thru the Stand-alone Universal

> Device Programmer for mass production.

> This programmer is a hardware as Altera APU.

> .flash file is not a normal hexadecimal file which can be programmed by

> a programmer.

What format do you require? Most programmers support SREC ... and

you already have that format.

> Then how can I get a hex file from a .flash file for programming?

Are you referring to intel hex format?

Regards,

--Scott