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Honored ContributorWade,
Please, try to install the latest downloadable versions of every component of the Altera development environment: Quartus II 5.0, NIOS II 5.0 Evaluation Edition with Full components and Microtronix Linux1.4. Explanation (rather long and convoluted - you may want to skip it :-) Yes, using the IDE that came with the Eval. Board might be a bit of a problem. I noticed the Altera CD contained the whole development environment, but the versions of almost every piece of software were quite... antique! Now, most posts you have seen on this forum refer the the last version of the Microtronix tools, which are all Eclipse plugins. The Eclipse version (renamed in the latest incarnation to "nios2-ide.exe") that all of us have been using is 3.0. And the plugins (tools) work, which means they are compiled for that version of Eclipse. When you have worked long enough in Eclipse (doing whatever - Eclipse is, mainly, used for J2EE developmnet) you learn that it is very important that the plugins are compiled for your specific Eclipse version. Daniel
