Intel® Stratix® 10 FPGA – SDM Bootloader for the Nios® V/m Processor Design Example

Introduction

Nios® V processor application copied from configuration QSPI flash to RAM using a boot copier (Secure Device Manager (SDM) bootloader)

Device Family	Intel® Stratix® 10 SX SoC FPGA
Quartus Edition	Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
Quartus Version	22.4
Other Tags	Validated in Quartus and Board

IP Cores (2)

IP Core	IP Core Category
Nios V/m Processor Intel FPGA IP	EmbeddedProcessor
Mailbox Client Intel FPGA IP	ConfigurationAndProgramming

The Nios V processor starts executing the boot copier upon system reset, which copies the

application from the configuration QSPI to the internal RAM. Once this

completes, the Nios V processor transfers the program control over to the application.

Device Family	Intel® Stratix® 10 SX SoC FPGA
Quartus Edition	Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition
Quartus Version	22.4
Other Tags	Validated in Quartus and Board