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15 years ago

Nios II problem in programming

Hi, I want to load a program in the Nios II processor of cyclonII by ByteBlasterMV programmer. I encountered with an error that it means:I can not use a ByteBlaster programmer and I should use a U...
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15 years ago

The Nios II Command Shell gives you access to all the command line tools that the Eclipse tools use when compiling, downloading, opening terminals, etc... The various tools available on the command line are documented in the Nios II software handbook. This assumes you are using Windows, if you are on Linux then you just run the command line tools from a terminal.

The .elf file is the executable you compiled. When you download your code to the FPGA it's the .elf file that gets sent to the target.