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10 years ago

ELF file size issue from Nios II

Hi, I started learning FPGA. Bought MAX10 development kit which has 10M08SAE144C8GESE chip. I created basic system using Qsys guide. Imported qip file into Quartus and made a basic bsf file ...
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10 years ago

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Can you share your simple main function? Have you tried the template hello_world_small applications from the eclipse GUI? It is typically in 1kB size only. Maybe you can share your Qsys design?

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its an empty function. I attached qsys,quartus and nios II project files. these are with Quartus HAL bsp

I tried with micro C RTOS also, where the output from nios II itself not generating due to size issue [ configured on-chip memory: 30kB. If I configure more than that, Quartus is throwing error saying that memory can not be accommodated.

Please note, with out micro C rtos, Nios II gave output [*.elf] file. But, the size is ~206kB. so, when I try to download that, am getting download fail message, with out any error code or so.

Any tips ? [ I believe, with this MAX10 dev kit, I can not do Nios-II soft core [with and without Micro C RTOS. This kit is only for hardware design and not for soft processor. am I right? ]

thanks !