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17 years ago

NIOS II license

I`ve bought Cyclone II FPGA Starter Board and along with it I`ve received DVD with Quartus II, NIOS EDS,.. and also NIOS II Evaluation licence. And, as I understood I sholud be able to program the Cy...
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17 years ago

The message you are getting is just a warning and Quartus is probably still creating the SOF file. With a NIOS II eval license, Quartus will not create actual programming files but should still be able to create a SOF file. You should be able to download the SOF file via JTAG to the FPGA.

If you have the bandwidth, I would suggesting downloading Quartus II 8.1 Web Edition from the Altera website.