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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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7 years ago

Attempting more options, I found another problem in File Converter/Load HEX file. Error message tell "HEX file overlap memry block 4 to 0) or similar. Reading the forum I found that it is due to Quartus/Assignment/Options/Compiler process settings/More Settings/Read or Write hex files in byte addressable mode.. I had "global" option, I try Byte addressable mode on...

So, BOOT procedure is affected from multiple selection.. Please GIVE US A WELL TESTED PROCEDURE to obtain a BOOT!!!! Final user cannot keep in load own work time to try and solve known bugs.... :-(