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21 years ago

Custom 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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21 years ago

Just running hello world gives me the following:

Using cable "ByteBlasterII [LPT1]", device 1, instance 0x00

Pausing target processor: not responding.

Resetting and trying again: FAILED

Leaving target processor paused

If I do a sld info, the JTags are there. I'm thinking there is a memory issue. I am using just the 1c6 which is very tight on memory. I've had to do all of the steps outlined in helloworld just to get it to fit. I'm looking now for memory overflows that aren't flagged.