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Honored ContributorNIOSII Flash Programmer with Intel P30 Flash
I am trying to use the Flash Programmer in the NIOSII 6.1 toolset and I am having problems getting it to program an Intel P30 flash. The flash is connected on a custom board through the CFI int...
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Honored ContributorI have used this part before. It is not a problem with voltage. It is just that the power up default
is to have all the sectors locked. Other devices power up with the sectors unlocked so programming is not an issue. I need to have an option to the nios2-flash-program command to unlock the sectors before it programs. There are perhaps other workarounds that I can do in operational code to unlock all the sectors before the flash programmer is called but I was hoping that it would be an option in the toolchain. This part will be very popular in the near future as it is pretty cheap for the size.
