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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Run as hardware

Hi, Now I want to write the bootloader by myself for my NiosII System. Can anybody tell me how to finish it in detail? And can you explain what action will be taken by NiosII IDE j...
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21 years ago

The source for the bootloader is in the altera_nios2 component. Search for boot_loader_sources.

As for how to make it boot - obviously you need to store the bootloader and its data blocks in a non-volatile memory. Flash is the obvious choice, but on-chip RAM build out of M4Ks (not MRAMs) is also initialised as soon as the chip is configured.