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Altera_Forum
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19 years ago

problems for download the program to the flash

ep 9, 2006 3:41:02 PM - (??) nios2-flash-programmer: Error opening target hardw

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the error is that as follow: what's mean?

In order to program flash, you must first create a purpose-built

flash-programming design (i.e. FPGA configuration) and associate it with

your particular board. The Nios development kit is delivered with purpose-bui

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flash-programming designs pre-built for several development boards. If you wi

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to program flash on your own board, you must first create a flash-programming

design.

The process of creating a flash-programming design for your board is mostly

automated. From a bash-shell, execute this script:

mk_target_board --help

The help-message includes references to other documentation on programming

flash and targeting Nios systems to custom board designs.

- exiting.

WARNING: Default charset GBK not supported, using ISO-8859-1 instead

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    Use >=5.1 versions of both Quartus II and the Nios II tools. Prior to this version, the flash programmer was more of a pain to use.

    Cheers,

    - slacker