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19 years ago

Loading of code to SRAM

Hello all, In the system library properties I can ask for my code to run from the SRAM. I'm interested in knowing what happens behind the scenes when I compile and Run / Debug my code using...
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originally posted by queisser@Mar 15 2006, 02:31 PM

yes, what you describe is what happens. the build process adds a boot loader that's responsible for copying the segments to the correct memory locations and then jumping to that location. there's a boot loader specifically for the epcs.

you can look at the code of the bootloader(s) in your components directory, on my machine in c:\altera\kits\nios2_51\components\altera_nios2\sdk\src\boot_loader_sources)

andrew

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Thank you, I will look at that.