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NGord
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2 years ago

NiosV

Hi I am in the process of converting a MAX10 Nios2 design to a MAX10 NiosV. It boots from Flash loaded into DDR All is good with the compiling apart from I need to convert the elf file to a hex fi...
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tehjingy_Altera
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2 years ago

Hi


Have not tried out on the MAX10 before, however I did managed to run the hello world on other boards

Could you try just booting the hello world elf from the memory itself instead of using the bootloader method?

I followed the steps from the link below on getting the hello world running in other boards.

https://community.intel.com/t5/Nios-V-II-Embedded-Design-Suite/Nios-V-Processor-Installation-and-Hello-World-Execution-Part-1/m-p/1552554#M52380



Regards

Jingyang, Teh



Before you try booting it from the flash .

Have you tried running it from the


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    NGord
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    2 years ago

    I tried that - it seems to load ok (- my DDR is at 2000000) do you see anything wrong? Nothing still on the terminal.

    [niosv-shell] C:\Users\nigelg\Documents\max10_minuet_niosV_hello1\top_project> niosv-download sw/app_hal/build/app_hal.elf
    INFO: Generating OpenOCD config file. Running "openocd-cfg-gen C:\Users\nigelg\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpgv_staf3\niosv.cfg".
    INFO: Starting OpenOCD. Running "openocd -c tcl_port disabled -c gdb_port 0 -c telnet_port 0 -f C:\Users\nigelg\AppData\Local\Temp\tmpgv_staf3\niosv.cfg".
    [OpenOCD output] Open On-Chip Debugger 0.11.0-R22.4
    [OpenOCD output] Licensed under GNU GPL v2
    [OpenOCD output] For bug reports, read
    [OpenOCD output] http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
    [OpenOCD output] Info : only one transport option; autoselect 'jtag'
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Application name is OpenOCD.20240703094844
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Attempting to find 'USB-BlasterII [USB-1]'
    [OpenOCD output]
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Cable 1: device_name=(null), hw_name=USB-BlasterII, server=(null), port=USB-1, chain_id=0000000000ad69d0, persistent_id=1, chain_type=1, features=14336, server_version_info=(null)
    [OpenOCD output] Info : TAP position 0 (310D0DD) has 2 SLD nodes
    [OpenOCD output] Info : node 0 idcode=08986E00 position_n=0
    [OpenOCD output] Info : node 1 idcode=0C006E00 position_n=0
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Discovered 1 TAP devices
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Detected device (tap_position=0) device_id=0310d0dd, instruction_length=10, features=4, device_name=10M40D(A|C)
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Found an Intel device at tap_position 0.Currently assuming it is SLD Hub
    [OpenOCD output] Info : This adapter doesn't support configurable speed
    [OpenOCD output] Info : JTAG tap: tap_0310D0DD.0 tap/device found: 0x0310d0dd (mfg: 0x06e (Altera), part: 0x310d, ver: 0x0)
    [OpenOCD output] Info : JTAG tap: tap_0310D0DD.0 Parent Tap found: 0x0310d0dd (mfg: 0x06e (Altera), part: 0x310d, ver: 0x0)
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Virtual Tap/SLD node 0x08986E00 found at tap position 0 vtap position 0
    [OpenOCD output] Info : datacount=2 progbufsize=8
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Examined RISC-V core; found 1 harts
    [OpenOCD output] Info : hart 0: XLEN=32, misa=0x40001100
    [OpenOCD output] Info : starting gdb server for tap_0310D0DD.0.niosv_0.cpu on 0
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Listening on port 64525 for gdb connections
    INFO: Found gdb port 64525
    [OpenOCD output] Ready for Remote Connections
    [OpenOCD output] Info : tcl server disabled
    [OpenOCD output] Info : Listening on port 64526 for telnet connections
    INFO: Found telnet port 64526
    INFO: OpenOCD is ready.
    INFO: Loading image via GDB. Running "riscv32-unknown-elf-gdb -batch -ex set arch riscv:rv32 -ex set remotetimeout 60 -ex target extended-remote localhost:64525 -ex load sw/app_hal/build/app_hal.elf -ex set $mstatus &= ~(0x00000088)".
    The target architecture is set to "riscv:rv32".
    warning: No executable has been specified and target does not support
    determining executable automatically. Try using the "file" command.
    0x44001004 in ?? ()
    Loading section .exceptions, size 0x284 lma 0x20000000
    Loading section .text, size 0x18170 lma 0x20000284
    Loading section .rodata, size 0xfb0 lma 0x20018400
    Loading section .rwdata, size 0x1cc0 lma 0x200193b0
    Start address 0x200002e8, load size 110692
    Transfer rate: 79 KB/sec, 11069 bytes/write.
    [Inferior 1 (Remote target) detached]

    [niosv-shell] C:\Users\nigelg\Documents\max10_minuet_niosV_hello1\top_project> juart-terminal
    juart-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
    juart-terminal: "USB-BlasterII [USB-1]", device 1, instance 0
    juart-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)