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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

What can stop the debugger getting control of the NIOS II?

Hi, I'm using the NIOS II 9.1sp2 SBT environment. Occasionally during debugging I get an error from the debugger when I try to pause the program - "Processor failed to go into debug mode". ...
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16 years ago

Thanks Bill. In my case it was a hardware issue that stopped a H/W register read access from completing - locking up the bus.

Can't blame the NIOS for that one...