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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

On-Chip Memory Required?

Hello all, I am new to NIOS, but quite familiar with FPGAs otherwise. I'd like to setup a NIOS II processor on a design that is already in place. I'd like to keep the on-chip memory usage to a bare...
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16 years ago

It's pretty darn easy. All you have to do is point the NIOS's boot address to your flash device. Then when you create your software BSP (board support package) you tell it you want to run everything out of your DDR. When you compile your project, it will automatically create the necessary bootloader and the resulting flash file (containing your code and the bootloader) that you just need to program into your flash device.

Jake