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Trouble getting NIOS II Software Build Tools to work on Ubuntu
I am attempting to get the Software Build Tools for the NIOS II processor working on my machine. Some details: OS is Ubuntu 18.04 Quartus is version 19.1.0 Lite On previous versions of Quartus it appears that the NIOS SBT were installed with the full Quartus installation. I simply went the tools menu in Quartus and clicked on the NIOS II Software Build Tools for Eclipse option to bring up the Eclipse environment without any issues. According to this link it appears that NIOS SBT for Eclipse no longer comes with full installation. https://www.intel.com/content/altera-www/global/en_us/index/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/tools/2019/why-does-the-nios--ii-not-installed-after-full-installation-of-t.html I have attempted to follow the instructions in the link above. Steps 1 - 3 work well. The difficulty begins with step 4. I do not have the file eclipse_nios2_plugins.zip (or tar.gz). Is it supposed to be in the downloaded file, eclipse-cpp-mars-2-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Will4KViews0likes10CommentsTrouble with JTAG Server. Can't find Altera USB-Blaster in Quartus Programmer.
Hello All, I am having a bit of trouble programming my Terasic DE0-CV board (Cylone V) with Quartus Prime Lite Edition 18.1. I am on Windows 7. I have the board plugged into a USB port and the Altera USB-Blaster appears in the Device Manager under Universal Serial Bus Controllers. I went through the process of installing the proper driver for the USB-Blaster from the quartus\drivers folder the first time I plugged the board in. That part seems to be ok. The USB-Blaster appears to be happy. The problem begins when I attempt to program the board. The Quartus programmer cannot find the USB-Blaster under the Available Hardware tab. When I click Add Hardware I get an error message: Attempted to accesss JTAG server -- internal error code 82 occurred Plenty of other people have posted about this error in the past. One recommendation is to disable all firewalls. I have done this and restarted without effect. I have seen the suggestion to use jtagconfig in the command prompt to debug the state of theJTAG chain. When I browse to intelFPGA_lite\18.1\quartus\bin64 and run jtagconfig --serverinfo I get the result "JTAG Server is not installed" This seems pretty clear. I can't use the programmer because the JTAG server is not installed. But how should I go about installing? My research seems to indicate that I should have a jtagserver.exe in my \bin64 folder but none is present. Am I mistaken about this? Final question: Am I wasting my time with Quartus on Windows 7? Should I just switch to Ubuntu? I am more comfortable with Ubuntu anyway. Any help with this JTAG issue would be greatly appreciated. It has been a struggle here for quite a while. Thanks3.4KViews0likes3Comments