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16 years ago

Problem generating Hex files for on chip memories.

I have two on chip memories for my Nios system. ("instruction_rom" and "data_ram", both are actually RAM's) I am having problems with .hex files generated for these internal memories. The I...
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16 years ago

The IDE (9.0) seems to generate an image where all the initialised data directly follows the code, and initialisation code copies it to the 'correct' address.

This may not be what you want! And may be one of the problems.

You can persuade objdump to disassemble raw binary (and I presume hex) files, which you let you check that the code is approximately right.