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9 years ago

Downloading ELF failed

What do I do if I have the error "Downloading ELF failed" in Nios II SBT? I built a system in Qsys that had 0 errors, it compiled and I could load it to the board. What is then the error ...
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9 years ago

I get the same error with a simple design. First I had to increase the on-chip memory to 64 K.

Now I see Nios doesn't start. Maybe I have some design error. How can I know? 

$ nios2-download -g /home/developer/proj/quartus0423/software/nios2hello/nios2hello.elf
Using cable "USB-Blaster ", device 1, instance 0x00
Pausing target processor: not responding.
Resetting and trying again: FAILED
Leaving target processor paused