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20 years ago

Nios II IDE flash programmer problem?

Hello Nios experts,

I am using Nios II v1.1 with the IDE v1.1.0 and Quartus II v4.2. When I compile a simple project like the diagnostic or the hello world program, I can debug it fine. It generates a good elf file and a flash file. But when I go to use the flash programmer from within the IDE, I run into these problems. It claims that my flash file is too large for hte flash component. I don't think so, I tried these same simple projects with and older nios II v1.0.1 and Quartus v4.1 and it works fine. Here is the result form the console...

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#! /bin/sh# # This file was automatically generated by the Nios II IDE Flash Programmer.# # It will be overwritten when the flash programmer options change.#

cd C:/altera/kits/nios2/examples/verilog/niosII_stratixII_2s60_ES/full_featured_

qh/software/board_diag_1/Debug

# Creating .flash file for the project

$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/bin/elf2flash --flash=U5 --base=0x00000000 --end=0x1000000 --res

et=0x0 --input=board_diag_1.elf --output=ext_flash.flash --boot=$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/

components/altera_nios2/boot_loader_cfi.srec

# Programming flash with the project

$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/bin/nios2-flash-programmer --input=ext_flash.flash --sof=$SOPC_K

IT_NIOS2/components/altera_nios_dev_board_stratix_2s60_es/system/altera_nios_dev

_board_stratix_2s60_es.sof --cable=&#39;USB-Blaster [USB-0]&#39; --base=0x01000000

Feb 11, 2005 12:24:31 PM - (INFO) nios2-flash-programmer: Launching Quartus Prog

rammer to download:

C:/altera/kits/nios2/components/altera_nios_dev_board_stratix_2s60_es/syste

m/altera_nios_dev_board_stratix_2s60_es.sof

Pre-Reading 0KBytes of data from U5:

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*********************Feb 11, 2005 12:24:49 PM - (SEVERE) nios2-flash-program

mer: Flash file is too large to fit in flash memory[/b]

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And this is the content of the ext_flash.flash:

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S01A000055353A30313A30303030303030303A30313030303030304B

S32500000000140084003A48011004F8BF1016FDBF0034404000040040083A6800080000000068

S3060100000014E4[/b]

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I don&#39;t know what the problem is...

Any help would be appreciated.

-Quan

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    Altera_Forum
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    20 years ago

    UPDATED: Problem fixed...

    It turns out it was one of two things performed that corrected this problem.

    1) Nios2 license expired, v1.1 required new license. After obtaining new license and rebuilt, the flash programmer worked fine.

    2) The other change made was change the exception address in sopc builder to point from ext_sram to sdram, but I don&#39;t think this had much to do with it at all.

    Those were the two changes made and the flash programmer works correctly now.

    Wished there were some warnings or errors that would have helped get to this point sooner.

    -Quan