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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Downloading ELF Process failed!

I am running NiosII IDE on my windows 7 professional laptop. When I first create a sopc project and complie and download *.sof into target board, then I also create a demo NiosII project "Hello world...
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15 years ago

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Sounds like the problem I have every time I restart Quartus (which, as often as it crashes, is very often).

Try your first download after restarting from "Run Configurations..." rather than directly running something from the launch history. Once it gets back in sync, then running from the launch history works until you restart Quartus.

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I finially fix it by updating NiosII 10.0 sp1 to 10.1. Downloading the program after "Run Configurations..." to check whether the mcu is in sync. Maybe Version 10.0 sp1 is a bug one.