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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

Sorry the boot section is .entry. Everything looks fine.

I think there is a chapter about SignalTap in the Quartus manual. It takes some time to learn to use the tool, but it's not time wasted. It is a very useful and powerfull debugging tool, and you'll need it later. So take the time to learn it!

How do you check if your software is running? Could you for example turn a led on or off as the first instruction in main.c, just to check that the software doesn't crash later?