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16 years ago

Fail to restart program after poweroff and poweron

Best wishes and happy new year for all!! I have a problem on rebooting my project. The program runs ok when flashed on my nios ii system board (is a custom board consist of an cyclone ii fpg...
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16 years ago

Well it sounds like your software is loaded into the flash but either:

1 - The FPGA programming file is not programmed into the flash.

2 - Something is failing in the configuration.

Are the MSEL pins on the FPGA correctly set for Active Serial Programming?

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyc2/cyc2_cii51013.pdf

If you have an oscilloscope handy you might want to start probing the config pins to see what is happening there.

Jake