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Hello, good day to everyone! I own a BeMicro arrow kit and i've follow the embedded lab tutorial without problems (www.arrow.com/bemicro). Everything works fine on my system but i want to ...
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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- That's exactly what i did but it returned me an error when i selected run as NIOS II hardware, eclipse told me that the port was already in use by another program or something like that. --- Quote End --- Ah that might be because Eclipse and Hyperterminal are both trying to use the port. What you could do is use nios2-download from the command line to download your code and then use hyperterminal for the standard in/out. When you download via Eclipse it automatically opens the console which is most likely conflicting with Hyperterminal. By the way I used to use a program called brayterminal (sp?), it was lightyears ahead of hyperterminal so you might like it better. I don't know if it's around still though.
