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12 years ago

Unable to boot from on-chip RAM

Hi, I am using QuartusII version 11.1. I have designed a custom board with Cyclone IV E FPGA, EPCS16 configuration device, character LCD and some other ICs. I could successfully build a Qsys ...
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12 years ago

I would check that the elf file has everything in the expected places.

Run objdump -h foo.elf, objdump -P foo.elf and objdump -d foo.elf.

-h list the elf sectoon headers.

-P is the program headers (they are normally used by a program loader).

-d is the disassembly.

You should have a small piece of code at the reset vector that does little more than jump to (probably) alt_main.