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21 years ago

APEX Nios Dev kit

[list][*]The factory default demo doesn't work at all.

[*]When I download the new Nios project to Apex, It doesn't work ,either. But the project can work properly in another same dev kit.

[*]But I can download a project excluding Nios to APEX, and it work finely !

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Folks,

Help me....

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    To Kerri:

    I'm a Newbie. And the board doesn't work in my hands after I obtained the board, maybe someone in my Lab made a mistake to the board.

    1.

    in the <nios 2.0> kit, I finds

    standard_32_devboard.flash (552 KB (565,257 Byte))

    standard_32.sof (238 KB (243,757 Byte))

    but it doesn&#39;t work.

    I wonder whether the following files are created by yourself ?

    recovery_configuration_apex_20k200.sof

    default_board_image_apex_20k200.flash

    Would you like to send these files to me ( other1999@163.com -----Max. 8M attachment )

    and " ns " is not a command !!! Download *.sof by Byteblaster???

    2.

    http://www.altera.com/literature/ds/ds_nio...pex_20k200e.pdf (http://www.altera.com/literature/ds/ds_nio...pex_20k200e.pdf)

    P15 Table 2. Flash Memory Allocation : 0x100000-0x17FFFF(512KBytes) Nios instruction and nonvolatile data space.

    How do the Nios fetch the instruction in the flash? How can I find more detail about the flash allocaton?

    3.

    Kerri, do you do experiments in the Apex Board wiht Quartus 1.1 and Nios 1.0?

    Is it wise enough to buy a latest Cyclone(Stratix) Nios II dev. kit , as I finds more information is based on these kits.

    Or I get the Nios II + Nios II IDE CDs and begin to applicate them in the Apex.
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    Hi all.

    as far as I&#39;m aware NiosII doesn&#39;t support Apex........
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    OK, I realised late last night that you were on a really old version (2.5 years old and 8 + releases). And that it probably didn&#39;t have ns in it. ns is not a published command, it was put there to help us who work on it all day long.

    We did test Nios 1.0 and Q 1.1, but again, that was so long ago I don&#39;t remember specifics.

    I don&#39;t ever remember an issue with the default image flash files being bad.

    People are raving about Nios II, so if you are willing to get a stratix or cyclone board, then you could definately use it. And I think you might be happier.

    You could also see about upgrading your 2.0 kit to 3.2. Then use the Quartus 1 year free license to use the latest Quartus/sopc builder.

    Sopc Builder is now part of Quartus.

    But if you don&#39;t want to do that. Lets try to get your board up and running. I&#39;ll email you at the email address and see what we can get going. I&#39;ll post the final result here.