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14 years ago

Nios Processor Troubleshooting Help

Hello, this is my first post on these forums so excuse me if this is already covered elsewhere. I have searched for threads describing problems similar to mine but I haven't figured this out. I...
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14 years ago

If you power your board without anything connected to the AS or JTAG ports, does it start and show the welcome pattern? In that case it could mean the USB cable somehow disturbs the communication with the EPCS during power up.

If you do everything through JTAG (load a .sof configuration through the Quartus programmer, load the .elf file through nios2-download, open a nios2-terminal) does it work?