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16 years ago

Programming a custom board without flash memory

I have a custom board (Stratix-II with an EP2S90F1020C3). Right now the functionallity is only described in HDL and it's working fine. However, the board does NOT have any flash memory. Now I w...
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16 years ago

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If I try to run the project as NIOS II hardware from NIOS IDE, I get the following error:

There are no Nios II CPUs with debug modules available which match the values specified. Please check that your PLD is correctly configured, downloading a new SOF file if necessary.

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Before downloading the NIOS software you must download the updated FPGA configuration that includes your SOPC design. As the error message is saying, your problem is at an earlier stage that any NIOS issue.