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16 years ago

Problem debugging after bootloader loades

I have an Arria II GX device with an EPCS device attached. On this EPCS device I'm storing both the configuration and the application for NIOS. I'm able to use the NIOS default bootloader in the EPCS...
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15 years ago

Only adding a data connection to the memory with the boot loader is not always enough. If the memory is configured as ROM, you also need to make sure hardware breakpoints are enabled in your Nios config as you cannot set a software breakpoint in ROM. I think breakpoints are also used behind the scenes when single stepping.