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10 years ago

DESCRIPTOR MEMORY for SGDMA is not defined in system.h file

Hi everyone, I am new to altera and FPGA programming. I want to use two SGDMA for transfer and receive of data from a TSE ip core. For that I am using a separate Descriptor memory along with the p...
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10 years ago

Hi @krasner ,

Thanks for the reply. That issue got solved. I changed the base address of the descriptor memory and regenerated the .sopcinfo file. Can't tell though if the address was the culprit.

I have got another problem. Whenever I try to download the software on to the FPGA, it gives the following error.

--> "Downloading ELF Process failed." When I check the 'Run Configurations', it gives shows the following,

--> "The expected Stdout device name does not match the selected target byte stream device name."

Can you help me on this? I have tried regenerating the BSP, still the problem persists. The output .sof file shows time_limited. Has that anything to do?