AN 709: HPS SoC Boot Guide - Cyclone V SoC Development Kit

ID 683265
Date 1/27/2016
Public

1.2.1.3. Bootloader

The Bootloader has typical responsibilities that are similar with the Preloader, except it does not need to bring up SDRAM.

Because the Bootloader is already residing in SDRAM, it is not limited by the size of the OCRAM. Therefore, it can provide a lot of features, such as network stack support.