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NGord
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2 years ago

NiosV

Hi I am in the process of converting a MAX10 Nios2 design to a MAX10 NiosV. It boots from Flash loaded into DDR All is good with the compiling apart from I need to convert the elf file to a hex fi...
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tehjingy_Altera
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2 years ago

Hi


Sorry for the confusion.

For the NiosV there is a new tool to be used for creating the hex for bootloader.

The command tool to used is :


elf2flash --input software/app/debug/<Nios V application>.elf \

--output flash.srec --reset <reset offset + base address of GSFI AVL MEM> \

--base <base address of GSFI AVL MEM> \

--end <end address of GSFI AVL MEM>


riscv-none-embed-objcopy --input-target srec --output-target ihex \

flash.srec <Nios V application>.hex



Instead of one command to generate the hex it is separated into 2 steps.


https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/docs/programmable/726952/22-1-21-2-0/software-design-flow-56009.html



Regards

Jingyang, Teh


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    NGord
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    2 years ago

    Thats great - just what I wanted..

    One more thing:
    My Nios2 haad use of Exception Vector set within Platform designer.
    For Nios V it must be set with the Nios V command shell because MAX10 doesnt have a BSP editor!
    Any advice how I do that with the niosv-bsp command?


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      NGord
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      2 years ago

      Sorry I was bit hasty there..

      riscv-none-embed-objcopy doesnt exist in Quartus 23.1 std/lite edition.. The documentation is incorrect.