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12 years ago

Verify failed between adress ... on very simple design

Hi everyone,

i know this subject has been discussed a lot of times, but i don't find any solution for my case.

I 'm working on a DE2 115 board trying to get a TCP stack on uCos.

As usual, i do my SoC with a nios 2 and so on...

But when i tried to download the .elf to the system i got this great message that tells me "failed to download .elf" and a "verify failed between address x80000 and ...".https://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=8405 This address range corresponds to my main memory.

So, i did a very simple design with a nios2, jtag uart and mem of 65536 Bytes, just to see the behavior, and guess what? it doesn't work neither and tells me the same message.

I did a project 6 months ago with 11.1 version of Quartus and i never encountered this problem.

Since i installed the new 13.1 version a week ago, i got this message on all my old designs.

Is it possible that 13.1 hates me? I never cheated it, or maybe one time. This was a night, MicroSemi just told me how beautiful i was, and i... No, i just don't want to remember.

If someone has the solution, i take it. Thank you.

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Quartus 10 and 11 seem to be avoided because they are the transitions from SOPC to QSYS.

    How did you make your simple design ? from scratch or from templates ?

    common causes are :

    reset signal, watchdog...

    timings of mem

    wrong Qsys found (if you don't have sysid...) are ignored sysid/timestamp

    Have you tried with an other board ?
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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Thanks for your reply

    Is the sysid IP from Qsys mandatory?

    and yes, i tried on another de2 115 board.

    You're right, i should try it on my other cyclone3 board.
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    12 years ago

    i'm sorry i forgot to tell you that my design was from scratch. I tried with the "triple speed ethernet" from altera ftp but same problem.

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Hi again,

    problem was solved by deleting inverter on KEY(0) which was used for reset.

    I just want to die... so confused

    Thank you mmTsuchi for your advices. Have a nice week end