Using the ASMI

[Altera_Forum]

Has anyone here used the ASMI (Active Serial Memory Interface). I tried including asmi.c in my .c file but I get a 'no such file or directory' error.  

 What is required to use the ASMI software subroutines?

[Altera_Forum]

Quick question, why are you trying to use ASMI? If you are going to talk to the EPCS device you should use the EPCS controller (and it's HAL software routines).

[Altera_Forum]

It appears you are right. I just read that in the Embedded Peripherals Hadbook. The reason I was going to use it is it seems to be better documented than the EPCS Controller documentation. Also when I did searches on Alteras site the ASMI docs come up with more hits.

[Altera_Forum]

Ah... I see. That's probably because ASMI is older than the EPCS Controller. If you have not already figured this out, the EPCS controller does everything that the ASMI device did plus it has a bootloader built into it. When looking for documentation I would look at the following links since they contain the latest and greatest information: 

 http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-nio2.jsp (http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-nio2.jsp) (Nios II) http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-sop.jsp (http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-sop.jsp) (SOPC Builder) http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-qts.jsp (http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-qts.jsp) (Quartus II)