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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

Store image to dev board without using Nios?

I've recently inherited a Nios dev board, with an APEX EP20k200EFC484-2X FPGA, have downloaded Quartus II package, and can configue the device with an image. I want to know how to store an image to the board, so that I don't need to load it each time I power-up?

I got the board with no software or docs and have no knowledge of what Nios design it might have contained. However, from the Nios Embedded Processor Development Board Data Sheet I have tracked down it looks like I might need to do something with the pre-loaded Nios design to store my image to memory on the board.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I might proceed?

Many thanks,

James

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    Altera_Forum
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    18 years ago

    I've realised that Nios II is not compatible with my (old) hardware anyway, and Nios I is not supported by the tools/available, so cannot hope to use this anyway.

    Does anyone know if it is possible to configure the FPGA/board once rather than on every power up with these constraints?

    Many thanks,

    James