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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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10 years ago

"Downloading ELF Process failed"

I sometimes get this error usually when there is a mismatch between the ELF and the firmware I have loaded on the target board. (e.g. the BSP doesn't match the system that the ELF is expecting or the POF/SOF is old or wrong version)

A quick check amost always shows that I have the wrong SOF/POF loaded on the target. Getting close (or exceeding) to memory size can cause problems too.