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How can I Eliminate BOOT ROM from EPCS Controller

Altera_Forum
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‎03-09-2014 06:57 PM
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I have a design that is presently booting from EPCS via the Boot ROM. I would like to change this to boot/start from (onchip) RAM. 

 

As part of this change, I really would like to regain the 1K block of memory that is not the unused BOOT ROM. 

 

Is there a way to tell SOPC Builder or Quartus to eliminate the Boot ROM? 

 

Or is my only option to create my own custom version of the EPCS controller? 

 

TIA, 

-dave
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Altera_Forum
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‎03-10-2014 02:09 PM
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AFAIK the EPCS controller without the bootloader is just a regular SPI master. You could just put an SPI master, and then you just have to convince the system to install the EPCS driver anyway, or copy them yourself.

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