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11 years ago

Running NIOS program from external SDRAM

Hi, How would one create or modify a linker script to get a Nios program to run from external SDRAM rather on on-chip RAM? I have created a Qsys system with a NIOS and SDRAM controller. The...
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11 years ago

Hi Paul

The reset address must point to the EPCS base address.

With EPCS64 you can use the standard bootloader which will take care to copy code to sdram. Everything is done automatically and you'll find your application program ready to run at main entry point.

You need to write a custom bootloader only if you need special features, like loading multiple boot images or remote fpga update.