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20 years ago

Is there any way to support version feature?

Dear all, Is there any way to put version information to a fixed address in FPGA configuration file and Nios' code? In our system, we created *.rbf for FPGA configuration file and...
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20 years ago

Hi David,

what stops you from attaching a custom header/trailer that contains all the info you need?

Thats how we do it, apart from version info there is also an integrity check and

compatibility (SW/FW/HW revision) information. Same goes for NIOS software.

Cheers, Roger