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PRibe4
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6 years ago

Remote system upgrade for MAX 10 with Cypress quad SPI Flash

I'm working on configuring a remote system upgrade (AN 741) with a dual image configuration using an external SPI flash to store the NIOS 2 hex (Boot option 5 from chapter 1.5.3.2 from AN 730). Curr...
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5 years ago

Hello @Ahmed_H_Intel1,

I am using the Generic Serial Flash Interface intel FPGA IP with Cyclone V E FPGA and Micron MT25QL256.

While using NIOS II Flash programmer GUI, I get Error code 4 for nios2-flash-programmer when I add .elf and .sof file, and try to burn it in FLASH.

Also, I tried using Prime Programmer.

I combined and convert .sof and .elf to .hex using command line and finally to .jic file using Convert Programming File GUI. My program didn't get properly burned in flash.

I want to have both hardware and software in flash.

Other issue that I am facing is, when I use intel_generic_serial_flash_interface and put reset vector of NIOS II to intel_generic serial flash memory. I get the following error when generating BSP file.

Error executing 'nios2-bsp-generate-files --bsp-dir . --settings settings.bsp', unexpected return code 1.

Error message:

SEVERE: CPU "nios" reset memory "intel_generic_serial_flash_interface_top_0_avl_mem" has no matching memory region.
SEVERE: CPU "nios" reset memory "intel_generic_serial_flash_interface_top_0_avl_mem" has no matching memory region.
SEVERE: nios2-bsp-generate-files failed.

If you could please answer the above mentioned queries.

Regards,

Ahsan