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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Seemingly easy Build question

I have a prebuilt full set of source files to write to an FPGA with an NIOS II OS to drop in. This set was built on a different system with a different license. Ideally, I would like to program the FPGA with these files and be done with it, however I'm failing.

Correct me on this: When programming the FPGA with the quartus project I do not have to rebuild and it programs successfully... The error occurs when I try to add the NIOS II part. I THINK it's because when you program in the NIOS IDE it goes through the make process and rebuilds the file before programming which would cause a difference in license files between what is already on the fpga and the OS.

IF that is true, then I can't see any other way of proceeding without re-generating a cpu in the SOPC builder and then recompiling the quartus project. (Which I do NOT want to do... yet).

I'm using Quartus 6.0 and NIOS II IDE 6.0

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    I don't clearly understand your problem description, question - but for this part of it:

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    I THINK it's because when you program in the NIOS IDE it goes through the make process and rebuilds the file before programming which would cause a difference in license files between what is already on the fpga and the OS.

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    I am not familiar with the version 6.0 tools, but at least for the modern tools the NIOS software development environment (GNU gcc ) does not require any license at all to use it.

    The only license you would need would be for the NIOS IP core, and you would only need access to that when the FPGA binary image (.sof, .pof, etc.) file is created [in your case, possibly years ago].