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11 years ago

NiosII booting from on-chip memory

I am trying to boot a NiosII (HAL only, no other bigger OS) on a Cyclone IV directly from the on-chip memory. I have initialized the memory .hex file and included it in my project. I then recompiled ...
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11 years ago

Hello Terrazas,

Did you manage to solve your problem ? I am having the same problem.

How did you convert your elf-file to a hex-file which could be included in Quartus.

I use the following:

elf2hex --little-endian-mem --input="C_bootloader.elf" --output="C_bootloader.hex" --base=0 --width=32 --end=0x3fff --record=4 --lower

When I use SignalTap to look at the processor-signals I don't see any processor activity. It looks like it is still in reset.

Regards,

Wamor