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20 years ago

niosII development board download problem

We buy a NIOSII stratixII-2s30 board.

After i download the standard reference design on the board,

i open NIOS IDE to run hello world.

But when i download hardware,

It appear

Using cable "USB-Blaster [USB-0]", device 1, instance 0x00

Pausing target processor: not responding.

Resetting and trying again: OK

Reading System ID at address 0x021208B8: FAIL

ID value does not match: read 0xC9843AC9; expected 0x98C283C9

Timestamp value does not match: image on board is older than expected

Read timestamp 18:36:13 2004/09/02; expected 20:53:25 2005/05/26

Leaving target processor paused

who can help me?

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    20 years ago

    Hi excalibur828,

    try to generate your hardware in SOPC,then update symbol and ricompile in Quartus and finally recompile your program code.

    Download hardware and software file.
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    20 years ago

    Excalibur,

    What kind of board is this again?? Currently Altera does not ship any Nios development kits with Stratix II 2S30 devices (they may be comnig in the future). For now we ship 2S60ES on our Stratix II kits..... Maybe this board is from another source??
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    20 years ago

    The surface of box said: the kit contents is : StratixII ES2S30 FPGA.

    There is a fan on the FPGA chip in the development board, So i can't see the detail.

    I use quartus to autodect the chip, It appear it is 2S60.
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    20 years ago

    This is an Altera board? Maybe the boxes are mislabelled (I have seen the new 2s60 board and they do have a fan on them so that's why I think it's just the box being wrong).

    Judging by the time stamps you are seeing, you have downloaded hardware that has an old SOPC Builder instance, then compiled software for a newly generated SOPC Builder system (I'm talking about the "ptf" file by the way).

    When working with the reference designs I recommend this:

    1) Copy the hardware design to a "work" folder (that way you don't mess up your only copy of the hardware)

    2) Modify, regenerate, compile....etc this copied design only

    3) Base your software projects off the ptf file in the copied design folder (I'm guessing you have moved hardware around but didn't point to the same files in the IDE).
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    20 years ago

    I find the problem,

    sorry, it is very stupid. Because the reference design had add a systemID compenonent .

    I just use the .sof file . I didn't recompile the design .

    When i download my software. I get the result......

    If i delete the systemID compenonent of the reference design, It is OK!!!

    Thanks.