Nios® V Processor Software Developer Handbook

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Date 7/08/2024
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14. Read-Only Zip File System

Intel FPGA provides a read-only zip file system for use with the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) as a software package. The read-only zip file system provides access to a simple file system stored in flash memory. This file system is suitable for embedded software use.

The drivers use the HAL generic device driver framework for file subsystems. Therefore, you can access the zip file subsystem using the ANSI C standard library I/O functions, such as fopen() and fread().

The supported memories are General Purpose QSPI Flash, Configuration Flash in Control-block Based Devices, Active Serial (AS) Configuration Flash in SDM Based Devices, on-chip memory, and external memory.