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12 years ago

Cannot create an Internal Memory Initialization (.hex) File

Hello, I'm a beginner in Nios II software development. I used the Quartus 13.0, the Qsys and the Nios II EDS for Eclipse to create the count_binary example for the CycloneIII_3c25 Starter Kit. ...
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12 years ago

This looks fine. Do you also use an external memory, or do you have only the internal one? If you have several memories, can you check in the bsp settings that at least the application's boot and text sections are in the internal memory?

If it's still not working, then I suggest to use signaltap on the CPU's instruction and data masters, and use a power up trigger to see what the CPU is doing when the FPGA goes out of configuration.