MicroMonitor Boot Platform for Nios-II

Version 1.9 of the MicroMonitor boot platform has been released with support for Nios-II.

From the web site: http://www.microcross.com/html/micromonitor.html (http://www.microcross.com/html/micromonitor.html)

MicroMonitor is a free embedded system boot platform centered around an extensible embedded flash file system called TFS. With TFS in the monitor, data transfer protocols like XMODEM and TFTP (also in the monitor) can refer to filenames instead of address space. The whole boot-up strategy is driven by the content of one or more files that can be scripts or executable images. The file system is accessible at the command line and through an API available to the application. The API provides a flexible means of reading and writing files in flash, plus TFS provides power-safe runtime defragmentation as the flash fills up.

A network-accessible, MicroMonitor-based embedded system provides a firmware development project with immediate network boot (DHCP/BOOTP), file based maintainability, infield upgrade and in-system diagnostics. The boot flash footprint size typically ranges from 64K to 256K depending on the configuration.

MicroMonitor has been built on most major CPU architectures:

ARM, Blackfin, ColdFire, SH2, M68K, MIPS, NIOS, PowerPC, and XScale

MicroMonitor has been used to boot many different embedded operating systems:

VxWorks, Linux, pSOS, Nucleus, CMX, uC/OS, eCos, RTEMS, etc...