Eclipse: Downloading ELF process failed?

Question

This is for MAX10 (10M08), nios2, Quartus Lite v20.1.1 (Free version).
I have Quartus Lite 21.1 and eclipse but I had to install Quartus Lite 20.1 because I needed the sdram ip core which is not available in v21.1. Eclipse doesn't lunch from within Quartus 20.1, I dunno why. So I manually run it. I created a new workspace folder. I made a project with the sdram ip, nios, etc (Link to the project zip file). I can program the max10 configuration fine. I set a couple of leds on to show me that it is correct. It is. Now I'm trying to program the software from within eclipse but I keep getting the error in the picture below... the second picture is the console output. Can someone shed some light into my problem?

rodo · Answer

I messed up the link after I removed some code to see if that would make the error go away. It didn't work. The numbers in the console change a bit but I still get the same error. Here is the link to the zip file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10HNazopBa0eBX-z-1bhPSfDy83vJ__cK/view?usp=sharing

Thanks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10HNazopBa0eBX-z-1bhPSfDy83vJ__cK/view?usp=sharing

Thanks.

shengn_altera · Answer

Hi,

Please you can refer below for workaround:
https://community.intel.com/t5/Nios-II-Embedded-Design-Suite/Error-using-nios-ii-Downloading-ELF-Pro...
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/programmable/articles/000078544.html

Also, you can check on this manual for example design instead:
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/nios2/edh_ed_handbook.pd...

Is the Nios ii processor Reset vector memory properly set? I noticed you configure it to sdram.s1.
Can check on reset and nreset ports as well, may be some connections missing there.

shengn_altera · Answer

I further searched and sorted out some previous similar cases. Probably can help you out.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Quartus-Prime-Software/Downloading-ELF-Process-failed-when-executing-from-flash/m-p/234578

https://community.intel.com/t5/Nios-II-Embedded-Design-Suite/Downloading-ELF-process-failed-while-using-the-external-memory/m-p/255693

https://community.intel.com/t5/Programmable-Devices/How-do-I-find-out-what-the-SBT-for-NIOS-error-quot-Downloading/m-p/678740

Timing:

https://community.intel.com/t5/Programmable-Devices/Adding-non-addressable-memory-causes-Downloading-ELF-Process/m-p/8303

https://community.intel.com/t5/Nios-II-Embedded-Design-Suite/Will-Nios-II-work-with-16-bit-SRAM/m-p/119159

Pin Assignment:

https://community.intel.com/t5/Programmable-Devices/NIOS-II-Downloading-ELF-Process-failed-Arria-10-FPGA-Dev-Kit/m-p/224848

https://community.intel.com/t5/Nios-II-Embedded-Design-Suite/Downloading-ELF-process-failed-Connected-system-ID-is-also-not/m-p/200748

https://community.intel.com/t5/Programmable-Devices/Downloading-ELF-process-failed/m-p/592506

https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-Quartus-Prime-Software/Handle-error-quot-Connected-system-ID-hash-not-found-on-target/m-p/255155

shengn_altera · Answer

Hi,Do you need further help on this? Have your problem being resolved?Thanks,Best Regards,Sheng

shengn_altera · Answer

Since there are no further feedback for this thread, I shall set this thread to close pending. If you still need further assistance, you are welcome reopen this thread within 20days or open a new thread, some one will be right with you.

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