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OKris1
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6 years ago

NIOS II don't boot up after reset

Hi. I have a Cyclone III FPGA Starter Board bought back in 2010. I have started on some NIOS II applications to leanr the C code firmware part of the FPGA. I have downloaded niosii-ethenernet standa...
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EricMunYew_C_Intel
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6 years ago

Hi, Oystein


You can refer to below page 219 - 350 for Nios boot (from external flash) method.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/nios2/edh_ed_handbook.pdf


For Cyclone III, you can use Quartus 15.


In the above link, you can follow the method to generate .hex (with boot copier) for your flash using mem_init_generate. Your reset vector and exception vector are pointing to external flash, and follow the correct method in BSP linker.


Thanks.


Eric