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APaci1
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7 years ago
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Quartus 18.1 + NiosII F on CyclomV : boot fails!

Hello to everyone ! I have my hardware with Cyclone V 5CSEBA4 , Quartus 18.1 standard licensed. I make a QSYS with an EPCQ64 controller and NiosIIF and I develop my application with Eclipse. It ru...
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    FawazJ_Altera
    7 years ago

    Hello sir,

    Kindly check the following items:

    1- Make sure you use a clock source to Serial Flash controller IP (EPCQ) up to 25MHz (MAX).

    2- Make sure your Nios II is running at 50MHz.

    3- Make sure the MSEL is pointing to the correct flash configuration:

    If using QUAD, MSEL should be 10010

    If using STANDARD, MSEL should be 10011

    Please let me know if this could help you.

    Thanks

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APaci1
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7 years ago

Hi! Following "full in place" method proposed by Fjumaah our PCB boots well! I pre-loaded FPGA on chip ram with Hex file generated from Eclipse, then I used Quartus file converter to obtain a JIC file, and after FLASH writing with only SOF file, FPGA and NIOS boots is OK!!!!

WELL!!! This confirm that our Hardware runs fine...

AND NOW I CLAIM INTEEEEEELLLLLLL ! WE NEEED TO LOAD OUR APPLICATION IN SDRAM , why on-chip is too small for our purposes.

If our HW runs fine, and we follow strictly guidelines from edh_ed_handook

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/nios2/edh_ed_handbook.pdf

I try boot in place from ECPQ , and boot copier option, but Nios-IIF doesn't boot. Please.... could you give us tips to solve this problem?????

I sent a project copy to mr. Anand to examinate this issue.. our hw seems run OK... so Nios should boot from ECPQ...... :-(