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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

urgent: error running in hardware

I am using Nios II IDE Version 9.0. When I run my program as hardware, the following error message appears: using cable "usb-blaster [usb-0]", device 1, instance 0x00 pausing target process...
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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

This has been asked and answered a lot of times in the forum.

The programming file is time-limited because you included an unlicensed module in OpenCores evaluation mode. This module will continue working until the USB-Blaster remains connected to the device, so you must not close the warning message box appearing just after programming ends.

Probably, in your situation, the unlicensed module is the Nios II core itself: simply don't press Ok on the warning box.

Regards