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16 years ago

running the software NIOS II

hai... i need some help on my project..this is my first time using NIOS II, Quartus II and altera Cyclone II..while running the software on NIOS, i'm facing problem when i tried to program the fla...
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16 years ago

leen's description of the IDE answers your second question.

The other problem (in your second paragraph) has to do with the device that you are programming. In JTAG mode, you are programming the Cyclone II, so that should be the device in your device chain, and your programming file would be an sof file. In Active Serial mode, you are programming a non-volatile chip (like an EPS serial chip), and that chip must be "seen" by the programmer (you may have a PROG switch on your board, for example). You would need a corresponding pof file, built for that chip.