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21 years ago

Programming EPCS via NiosII IDE

I have a custom NiosII Cyclone board with both a JTAG header and an EPCS header (active serial). I have been using the Quartus programmer utility to update my single EPCS device with the project .pof...
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21 years ago

It seems I spoke too soon in claiming victory. I had two HW images defined in the flash programmer project, a 'sw_app' image for the SW stored in parallel flash(seems unnecessary), and a 'hw_app' image for the serial epcs. When I tested with the flash utility, I did not notice that it was the 'sw_app' image that was specified in the pulldown dialog. It appears that it first programmed the parallel flash with the sw application flash.flash file, and then wrote over this with the hw application sof converted to a rbf.

When I go back and select 'hw_app' in the flash utility, I get the same old "make: No rule to make hw_app" I was getting before. Is the makefile generator supposed to add this rule automatically, and if not, how do I do it?

Nate, on your advice I have gone back and restored the ASMI module and removed the redundant sw_app image, but I get no further.

BTW, whenever I modify the flash programmer project (such as renaming my hw image or base address), I need to re-generate and recompile it and the application project and the sw project twice before the changes I made propagate thru to the flash utility dialogs.