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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Program EPCS from user code?

I'd like to add a firmware upgrade capability to my NIOS system. Since the end user won't have a development system with JTAG I'd like to add a way of reprogramming the EPCS with FPGA con...
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20 years ago

If you&#39;ve ever programmed the SOF to flash, you should see a <sof_name>.flash file in the Debug|Release subdirectory of your project. There&#39;s also an auto-generated <project_name>_programmer.sh script which should make it apparent how all this stuff works....

This script uses:

1. sof2flash to generate the <sof_name>.flash file.

and

2. nios2-flash-programmer to program it to the flash device.

Cheers,

- slacker