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15 years ago

Downloading ELF Process failed in Quartus II 10.0

hi guy I build one simple nios project in quartus II 10.0 software, compile my software is ok, i have downloaded the sof file into FPGA via jtag. when i prepare to download the ELF file via nio...
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11 years ago

This is a bug in Nios2 EDS when System ID is not set, the program issues the nios2-download command with --sidp=Not Found rather than --sidp="Not Found". So you need to configure a dummy value for System ID in the Advanced... part of Run Configurations ->Project for Nios II Hardware configuration. It would be nice if Altera would fix this.