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20 years ago

Why can not set Program memory to FLASH

I make a simple SOPC Builder system with only EPCS+onchip ram and without other offchip Flash and sram/sdram. I test it under Nios II IDE that it does work when program memory(.text) and read-only da...
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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

I don't think you'd want to run your code from a serial flash, like an EPCS, and, even if you did, the controller that ships with Nios II does not support it. The contoller contains a small onchip memory to hold a bootloader.

There is an alternate EPCS component, which you can find on this forum, which will allow you to do what you want.

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