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19 years ago

Viable alternatives to the EPCS family

Hi Folks, Most of us are aware that its possible to substitute serial memory devices from ST and Spansion inplace of the Altera EPCS family. However, this only appears to work (for me) in ...
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19 years ago

Nios flash programmer only requires the chip ID to deduce the size of sectors. Instructions were already posted to the forum, so make another search, you have to add a file to your Quartus directory. The ST devices have the same IDs as Altera devices, so there is no need for modifications if you use devices with sizes already provided by Altera (1, 4, 16, 64Mbit). I tested with a ST 32Mbit device and it worked, meaning I was able to use the Nios flash programmer to upload hardware and software and it booted ok.

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