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8 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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8 years ago

to Anand Raj Shankar, anilinaltera

Thank you for your reply. I just solved my problem from your comments.

The main cause was that I didn't assign 'clock' and 'resetn' signal to the appropriate pins of Arria10 FPGA.

I assigned 'clock' signal to PIN_AU33 (1.8V 50MHz reference clock) and 'resetn' signal to PIN_U11 (User Defined Push Button).

Then Nios gave me perfect response.

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