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20 years ago

Hard lock with Nios 2 cyclone dev board

Hey guys, I'm trying to get to work developing on the nios development kit cyclone edition. The board has a Nios II chip version 1.1 and a Cyclone EP1C20F400C7 FPGA. I am running Quartus II 4.2...
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20 years ago

Hi jonb,

I think your problem is that you download only ".sof" file, that means only the hardware configuration of your FPGA, and it's a volatile download.

So u have to create a software project, linked with your hardware configuration, using IDE interface (there is a "getting started" for it...) and, after downloading ".sof", download the software project.

It's long to explain but this is the way...