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8 years ago

NIOS Execute in place from EPCS flash

Hi, I am trying to load the NIOS code into EPCS and execute from EPCS. After compiling the code in Eclipse. I am getting the following error. address 0x3e09f88 of nios_hdmi.elf section `.t...
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8 years ago

You can't execute your code in place from the EPCS. The epcs_flash_controller_0 region is a ROM memory containing a bootloader that will copy your code from the EPCS into the main RAM. If you want to avoid that the only other solution I can think of is to implement an on-chip ROM in the FPGA but it will use resources.