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15 years ago

Bemicro NIOS lockup on EPCS access

Hello, I have installed the EPCS flash on my Bemicro and set the jumper accordingly. I can load an FPGA design into the EPCS using the Quartus Programmer and have it load successfully, so the ...
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15 years ago

I couldn't get the Nios IDE to flash the epcs either. It complains that it can't halt/reset the processor. As a matter of fact, even using the quartus programmer to flash a jic file didn't work... some error about the id.

Programatically through the HAL, however, the Nios sees the epcs with no problems... I'm betting I could probably flash it that way, but if anyone has done it through the Nios IDE it would be nice to have confirmation that at least it CAN be done!