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10 years ago

NIOS II Gen2 Hardware Breakpoints broken?

It appears that there may be an issue with NIOS II Gen2 Hardware Breakpoints. On a MAX10 device, I have my program text in UFM, and Hardware Breakpoints set to 4 (using Quartus Prime 5.1.1). H...
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10 years ago

The NIOS II Gen2 hardware breakpoints are now functional - joy! I created a brand new Hello World application and BSP and used the v2 (beta) debugger, which was the only other significant change I made in addition to keeping the number of hardware and data breakpoints the same. Perhaps there was some internal Eclipse setting that got corrupted in my original application and BSP due to either the inconsistent breakpoint settings, or switching back and forth between the legacy and gen2 cores.

Thanks again to Altera Teacher MikeSouze, for his insight into making the correct gen2 breakpoint settings -- very much appreciated.

-Tom Rosenbauer