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19 years ago

Debugging problem with USB-Blaster

I am having a problem while trying to debug Nios applications using a USB-Blaster. On my own laptop everything works fine. I have bought a new laptop for another engineer that I recently recruited to...
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19 years ago

I tried a USB Blaster with a short ribbon cable but sadly it didn&#39;t fix the problem http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif

The next thing I tried was to use the Insight debugger rather than the Nios IDE. I started two Nios shell windows. In one of them I typed "nios2-gdb-server –-tcpport=2343 &" and in the other I typed "nios2-elf-insight hello_world_0".

When Insight opened I opened its terminal window and then typed "target remote :2343". At this point Insight crashed and vanished from my screen. The shell window where I started the gdb server said that it had accepted a connection but on the next line it said "Connection from GDB closed".

Could there be a problem with the GDB server or tools on this system?

Mike