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Honored Contributormaybe someone her can help me because the altera support stinks. if i had known they were going to take so long, i would have gone with xlinix. anyway, this is my problem:
when i try to run any of the examples, i get the following error message:
timestamp value does not match: image on board is older than expected
read timestamp 20:19:54 2005/10/20; expected 22:10:35 2006/03/30
the software you are downloading may not run on the system which is currently
configured into the device. please download the correct sof or recompile.
restarting target processor.
when i first got the eval baord and went thru the examples i didn't have a problem. but now i am seeing the above error message and can't compile and run any of the examples.
anyone here know ehy i am getting this error. it ls getting really frustrating to pay this much money and have this kind of problem.
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--- Quote End --- I was able to download the examples by unclicking the "Validate Nios II System ID before software download" button. My question is: Why does this keep me from downloading the software and why if unclicking it allows me to run the software. It seems to me if that option was that critical and it failed, my software shoudn't run. Forgive me for asking so many questions, but I am a cmplete noob to FPGA's. Although I have extensive software design experinece (I was hardware designer a long, long time ago). I am trying to come up to speed as quickly as I can on FPGAS's. I thought the Altera dev. kit was the best way to go. Did I make a mistake in choosing it?
