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21 years ago

Nios II Dev Kit (Cyclone)

Hi, I've tried the Nios Dev Kit on the Stratix and managed to get the "Binary Counter" example program running as in the Hardware Tutorial. However when I tried to do the same thing for t...
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21 years ago

It's strange. The configuration controller can reconfigure FPGA with safe configuration data located at 0x700000 address in flash, only when you press "Safe" button. If you have configuration data in EPCS or 0x600000 address in flash, you can see exactly which data is reprogrammed. Anyway, reconfiguration shall not happen unless you press reconfiguration buttons.

BTW, you'd better upgrade your quartusII 4.0 to 4.2 which corresponding to NIOS II version 1.1.