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VKara9
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7 years ago

Downloading ELF process failed

Hello, I am a new user of Nios II. I would like to use my friend project but it gives "Downloading ELF process failed." The project work on my friends computer. I try to do a simple "hello world pro...
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AnandRaj_S_Intel
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7 years ago

Hi,

By the way, when I click Run Configuration-> Target Connection-> System ID properties, the IDs are "Not Found" as shown below. Do you think that this can be reason of the fail?

No.

.sof is your hardware image and .elf is your software image.

You will get error mentioned above when

  1. we not handle reset correctly
  2. trying to program .elf without programming .sof.(After programming .sof dont power off or press hardware reset )

Regards

Anand