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16 years ago

Quickest way to test remote configuration with a EPCS

Hello all, Once again my laziness gets the best of me and here I am. I have created two FPGA/NIOS loads, one factory and one application. The factory load has a remote reconfig control...
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16 years ago

Yes, I've seen an458 and AFAICT it provides a boot copier but still doesn't address the EPCS bootloader which is always going to load the image in the first part of EPCS, not the image following the configuration the remote update loaded.

Can it be generic? Without and without ALT_REMOTE_UDDATE? How about providing an entry point for an application to call passing an address to load an application from? I looked at doing this - calling into the bootloader with registers set after it located the start of software but I wasn't sure it would work.

Thanks,

Bill