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15 years ago

Struggling with boot from initialized onchip RAM

Greetings fellow Alterians! I am using Quartus II 9.1 SP2, Cyclone III (16K) and EPCS16. My development board works fine and I can download and run software on my NIOS II via USB Blaster with ...
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15 years ago

Thank you for giving me the clue I needed to find the problem. My BSP was set to connect STDERR, STDOUT and STDIN to my JTAG-UART. This was causing my program to hang right from the start with no terminal attached to it. I set all of these BSP values to "None" and my "booting" problem went away.

I now have the whole system auto-booting out of an EPCS16 also, which is even better.

I appreciate your fast response to my problem!

LH