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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

How to use Compact Flash Card for NiosII

Hi,All. I can add the compact flash card into sopc, but I do not know how to read from/write to compact flash card by softwere program. Used:NiosII cyclone borad. Could anybody tell m...
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19 years ago

You should try the hardware using the example code that comes with it. Once that is working you can implement the FAT file system in the HAL using a free FAT file system layer for microcontrollers such as FATFS (ELM Chan) or DOSFS. Both are free and available by looking around google. FATFS is faster...

You should also search around the niosforum a bit too... this question has been asked many many times.