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21 years ago

NiosII & objcopy ? problem

Hi there, i do a migration to NiosII , for now nothing problem except one., why when i use objcopy to transform and .out file to Binary the bin files have an increasead size (it is filled wit...
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21 years ago

nios-convert does not appear to output plain binary format. The only altera tool that comes close is the quartus Convert Programming Files dialog, which can do sof to just about anything including rbf. It only seems to take sof as input so it is no help for srec or elf to bin. BTW, can the quartus converter be invoked from the command line?

Kinda strange that there is no altera sw tool that will produce a plain binary file as output. It is the most common and necessary format after all. Must be one of those 'branding' things;0