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22 years agoCustom board with epcs & cyclone error
Has anyone gotten a custom board to work with epcs 4 and a cyclone yet? I have tried for a week and can't get the cpu or flash programmer to work. It either comes back with an error 6 "Unable to ...
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22 years agoFor our board, the debugger did not work initially but does now. I am not sure what changed here
since the project has been modified several times. I would not worry about using debug or the flash programmer just yet. Focus on getting the hello world to run, which is the simplest step. It sounds like you can config HW ok, but not run any firmware. You believe the Jtag is OK, and that the CPU is running, but you can't connect. Eclipse has some quirks about creating SW projects, but I assume you have followed the tutorial. Double check that the run configuration you created points to the correct elf, ptf and CPU. I would leave the terminal setting to jtag_uart until it all works. What happens when you press 'Run'?