MAX10 - Problem with booting NIOS from QSPI

[VKoto]

Hello,

I want to try Remote System Upgrade (RSU) acording AN741. I bought developement kit DE10-Lite from the Terrasic for this. Now I have a problem with internal FLASH memory for 10M50DAF484C7G. This memory is too small for this NIOS project. I decided that I add external QSPI memory (N25Q128A13ESF40F) and use boot configuration acording AN730 – boot option 4b using alt_load(). I followed the exact procedure acording AN730. Compilation of project, generating output files and programing QSPI is OK. But NIOS doesn’t boot after restarting. Do you have some idea what I am doing wrong? My project is in atachment. Project is consist of two project (Master_Image and Slave_image). All output files are in Master_Image/output_files. There are output file for flash loader (max10_qpfl.sof), output .pof for programing QSPI and MAX10. I use Quartus: 17.1.0 Build 590 10/25/2017 SJ Lite Edition, Patches Installed: None. Thank you for your answers.

V. Kotora

[AnandRaj_S_Intel]

Hi,

After programming QSPI is have  programmed FPGA on-chip flash with Initial Image using JTAG?

For debugging kindly refer below case/thread with example attached.

https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P000043M6Mh/dual-configuration-ip-does-not-trigger-reconfiguration-in-max-10?s1oid=00DU0000000YT3c&OpenCommentForEdit=1&s1nid=0DB0P000000U1Hq&emkind=chatterCommentNotification&s1uid=0050P000008ASID&emtm=1538431895379&fromEmail=1&s1ext=0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3wcgr3LmjA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAyqWWm1yLU

However we have to first program the pfl.sof which will esablish bridge between fpga and qsip flash

and than download the <nios ii applicaion>.pof image to qspi flash.

than we can start programming internal flash with initial application image <application image>.pof

Regards

Anand