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21 years ago

New version of NiosII Flash Programmer

Hello, I'm reading the manual for the Nios II Flash Programmer User Guide, but it appears to not cover my software? On page 18, figure 1-3 shows options for "Program flash memory with softwa...
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21 years ago

yes, that is the mk_target_board design. I used the following :-

The command I entered was basically as shown in the screen on page 24 of the User Guide :-

mk_target_board --name=target_board --family=cyclone --clock=50 --index=1 --buffer_size=4096 --epcs=U2

My device is a 1C12, and I chose 4096 instead of 16384 just to be safe!!

I had some problems initially with quartus complaining about constraints, until I removing the asmi component. I added the EPCS controller and labelled it as U2.

Can I ask, do you thing is a reset input pin necessary for the programmer to work? I do not have a reset signal on my board - just a watchdog reset input which I do not connect to the programmer design, since I don't want to reset it!!! So at the moment I just tie reset to vcc on the schematic?