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12 years ago

NIOS II Standalone Operation

I have a NIOS II built using QSYS with ram/rom on a chip. I have my program running from the console under the NIOS II Software Build tools for eclipse. Now I want to run the NIOS untethered from my ...
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12 years ago

If you can run the debugger and the code runs fine, but when you download the SOF or voot from FLASH it does nothing, Open up QSYS and disconnect the JTAG debug module reset line from the reset input to the NIOS. In QSYS, if you have enabled the debugger within the NIOS GUI parameters window, this is the reset line coming out of the NIOS module. I found that to be the source of my problem. You can still run the debugger, just click on the checkbox to reset the processor before connecting.