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Altera_Forum
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Honored ContributorNew 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...
Altera_ForumHonored Contributor
Honored ContributorI tried running SOPC builder,etc to see if that helped.... nope.
Since I have a compactflash card to boot off I will try to see if I can construct my own small bootloader which I can place in a on-chip firmware ROM? Is this handy enough to map into NIOS,etc? I can budget about 8KBytes of on-chip for it.... not ideal solution, but beggars can't be........... (well - you know what I mean!) http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif Is it possible to force a FPGA reset (cold start,reconfig,etc) from within a design? If so, then I could use an on-chip RAM for the boot code (initialised with bootstrap code on initial bitstream) and once I'm up and running it could serve then as a general on-chip scratch RAM or some useful purpose? is this possible?
