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michaelheartsintl
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2 years ago

Stratix 10 Nios II Fails to boot .sof / .jic

I've got a Stratix 10 on the 10TX Signal Integrity Dev kit and can't seem the get the NIOS to run at boot without manually pushing it down via JTAG through Eclipse. I'm running Quartus Prime Pro 2...
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KellyJialin_Goh
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2 years ago

Hi,

Thank you for your response. Apologies for causing confusion.

I checked on your memory initialization screenshot you attached, you have chosen both 'Initialize memory content' and 'enable non-defult initialization file' . You do not have to do so, but only enable non-default initialization file. Here are the summary of steps for you to check whether you have done it correctly:


1. Build your SOPC system with onchip ROM and enable the "Enable non-default initialization file" option.

2. Generate your SOPC system.

3. Create a Nios II IDE project based on the just generated SOPC system.

4. Build your Nios II IDE project and make sure that the *.hex file according to your "User-created initialization file"-name was created.

5. Go back to SOPC and regenerate the system that now includes your *.hex.

6. Implement your SOPC sytsem in a Quartus project and compile this to get your *.sof and *.pof files.


You have to make sure that the Nios II IDE creates a *.hex file named according to the field "User-created initialization file". If all your settings in SOPC are okay (reset vector, etc.) then it should work after you re-generated your SOPC system and recompiled your Quartus project.

After recompilation of your Quartus project, the Nios program should be also in your *.sof file.


Thank you.

Regards,

Kelly