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14 years ago

NIOS II SBT Configuration with EPCS Controller

Hi All, I have a basic NIOS II system with a EPCS Controller used for booting. I have successfully flashed the EPCS device and on power-up the FPGA configures and the NIOS boots. However, ...
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14 years ago

So it sounds like the altera tool chain is a little less polished than it could be. If I'd still been running Gentoo, I'd have had a stab at creating a new NIOSII gcc cross-compiler toolchain, but I'm having to use Win7 these days.

I'm a little concerned about deviating too far from a 'standard' Altera setup. If I do it will make future maintenance (either by myself or others) more prone to difficulties.

I admit to being a little sceptical about how the toolchain is setup when I saw the size of the generated binaries. There seems to be a lot of stuff linked in that doesn't need to be.

Out of interest, what is your opinion on the BST? Would I be better off going back to Vim, make and a custom toolchain?

BTW, thanks for your help and quick feedback. Much appreciated!

Andy