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7 years ago

NIOS II - Downloading ELF Process failed (Arria 10 FPGA Dev. Kit)

Hello, I’m trying to running ‘hello world’ project by making up basic Nios II system. I encountered the error message : “Download ELF Process failed”. - Target FPGA board : Arria 10 GX FPG...
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7 years ago

@ OP

This usually happens when you uncheck active low reset check box in the clock source component. And make sure you have given the pins constraints like BH33 (stratix 10) and reset pin to A19. This tools wont alert you while configuring. But throws the error message after consuming a precious time. so careful.