This feature is currently supported by the TSK3000A and the Nios II 32-bit processors only. In terms of the latter, this enables you to empower your hardware systems with bootstrapping capabilities, confident that such capability can be implemented in a streamlined and intuitive fashion – all through Altium Designer's unified environment. So just how do you get at the Flash device, without the monumental task of reproducing a NanoTalk-like system on your board?Īltium Designer supports the ability to write to a parallel Flash memory device, or SPI Flash memory device, attached to a processor in a design. However, when it comes to a prototype hardware system, resident on your own development/production board, there is no NanoTalk Controller to 'pave the way' as it were, to an SPI Flash device. Use of an SPI Flash memory device on a NanoBoard is one thing, with the SPI communications in place to be able to readily 'see' and 'interact' with the device courtesy of the Host Controller FPGA (NanoTalk Controller).
#Serial Flash Memory Programmer Schematic download#
Getting your design inside the Flash memory is made a breeze, with Altium Designer providing an intuitive interface catering for memory erasure, programming and download verification. The NanoBoard NB-series NanoBoards all feature SPI Flash memory that can be programmed with a design for boot purposes – downloading that stored design to the User FPGA when the board is powered.