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13 years ago

Nios II boot Remote Update

I'm working on the Nios II with the device cyclone III, my flash EPCS64 memory contains 2 FPGA images and 2 softwares. The 1st FPGA image (factory) address is 0, the 1st Nios software address is ...
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13 years ago

Thank you for you answer.

It works !!! I had 2 problems:

- I was using an onchip ROM instead of RAM to store the bootloader in SOPC

- Then I have seen after reading back EPCS content that Nios binary file must be written without any byte modification unlike RBF files.

So I have modified the ROM to RAM and the way I write nios file on EPCS and now everything is working.

Now Nios can boot from a custom offset in EPCS and I can update binary file in EPCS !!