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8 years ago

Cyclone V SoC Preloader will not run bare metal app

Hello all, I've been working on this problem for several days now. I've read every website/pdf I can find (e.g. these forums, rocketboards, altera pdfs, etc, etc, etc, etc) regarding bare metal...
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8 years ago

jwdonal,

have you considered using a simpler program instead?

Alike "hello world" or toggling the LED on the DE0-10 nano connected to the HPS.

Without the licensed DS-5, you will be limited to what U-BOOT offers: memory dumps.

You should look at the memory map file from your compilation/link, check the generated code with objdump (the exception jump table is a good one) and then verify the code binary values are at the expected memory locations with UBOOT's md command.

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