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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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    NGord
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    2 years ago

    No- first time I have seen that requirement!
    Disabling GSFI is only when using alt_load to run code from Flash.
    It has to be enabled for using bootloader running from RAM.
    However - the point is the hexfile has to be Big endian for NiosV conversion to .pof file. Nios2 had to be Little endian, that fixes it.

    First time I ever saw that!!! Its a major difference. AN978 never mentions such a difference.
    You can close this now. Thanks.