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Hi All,
I know this has come up before because I've looked through many posts in the forum regarding this topic. I am currently working on a nios II based design using the DE0-Nano board and the on board 32Mb sdram. I am at the point where I want to load the hardware design and software onto the EPCS so the board can operate in a standalone situation. I can easily get the hardware design loaded into the flash but I have failed at every attempt to load the software. There's a lot of outdated documentation and conflicting forum posts about this process so I was hoping someone could lend me some guidance. My system is as follows: Quartus v15.0 Qsys system: 50Mhz system Clock System and SDRAM Clocks for DE-Series boards jtag_uart nios2_gen2_0: niosII/e During Development the reset and exception vectors have been set to the SDRAM nios_custom_instruction: floating point custom instruction performance counter SDRAM Controller SYSID ADC controller i2c controller pio uart I am using a lot of HAL libraries and am not using the small c option. I mention this because the method of programming a bootable system in the de0 nano literature (initializing on-chip memory with program code) is not an option due to the size of my code. If I understand correctly, what I need to do is convert my .sof and.elf files and then concatenate them together and load them to the flash chip. I then need to point the reset vector to the starting address of the code in flash. When I look in qsys I have the following options: Legacy EPCS/EPCQx1 Flash Controller Altera Serial Flash Controller : this one gives me the option to choose my specific device EPCS64. Which should I use what other hardware is required? I have read in various posts that you need to use a tristate conduit or a pll for a slower clock, but then other posts don't mention any of this. Again, if anyone could provide some guidance I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.Link Copied
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Hi Valueduser
I have been trying to do the same thing with you using the same board. The problem is that there are various information on the internet. I have tried all of them but still fail to make the software to be bootable. I am very confuse now. Have you already done?- Mark as New
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I have finally solved the problem. By changing to Windows 7 and Qusrtus 13.1. Thanks Altera!!!
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