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10 years ago

SOPC Builder is replaced how I build my NIOS II project

Hi, many PDFs I am reading are about SOPC Builder , however it is not found in Quartus ver. 13 , I have completed the "Lights" example steps , but when I download it to the DE2 cyclone II nothing happens. Please Help me.

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    SOPC Builder is now QSYS (Tools..Qsys).

    NOt sure it helps but one very common mistake is to forget the pin assignments.
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    Thank you, I tried , the elf file is not generated successfully , I spent many days with that :(

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    Can you post more details? What step is failing? There is not much we can use to help you.

    You have to build your FPGA project with Qsys + a top in VHDL or VERILOG, upload to fpga. Then create a NIOS workspace with a BSP project and your ELF project.
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    I have completed my NIOS II correctly, next launched the Eclipse ( Quartus 13) , loaded my sopc file , all that going well, after that no, I couldn't build any simple example., many thanks for your reply fredbk , you are trying to help that is enough.... thanks again.

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    I have completed my NIOS II correctly, next launched the Eclipse ( Quartus 13) , loaded my sopc file , all that going well, after that no, I couldn't build any simple example., many thanks for your reply fredbk , you are trying to help that is enough.... thanks again.

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    By the way you completed correctly in the same version of 13.1 or older version as SOPC builder is in older versions. I think you can straight to those exampe which is starting with QSYS instead. :D