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14 years ago

Stratix IV Dev Kit programming failure

I am having issues loading an SOF onto the Stratix IV Dev Kit. The programmer reports: Error: The instruction register length for the EP4SGX230KF40 device at position 1 in the JTAG chain is un...
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14 years ago

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1) USB-Blaster [USB 7-1.2]

024090DD !

020A40DD !

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The exclamation marks in the output indicate that jtagserver (jtagd on linux) was unable to calculate the instruction register lengths of the devices it found.

Since both devices are Altera devices the most likely cause of this is that pgm_parts.txt was not found by jtagd.

Are you launching jtagd manually or letting the tools launch it as usual?

Thanks,

wombat