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14 years ago

Programming epcs without Nios tools

Hi all. I'm sure this is in the documentation and it was discussed here before but I really can't find the answer any more. Please help. I have a design which boots both fpga and Nios from ep...
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14 years ago

Wamor,

Yes you can do what you want. By using the "Convert Programming Files" tool under the File menu in Quartus you can join SOF and HEX files. Just convert the elf file from the NIOS compile to HEX file and then run this tool. You can make .jic files for indirect programming or pof or other output formats that contain any number of data sections. Check out the help for the "Convert programming files"

Hope that helped

/Boris