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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Downloading Elf Process failed

Help. I went home last night with everything working fine. I came in this morning and can't get the Nios II processor embedded in my Stratix III FPGA to download from the Eclipse environment. ...
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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Caused by a hardware issue. There's a pretty broad list of possibilities, but I've seen it most commonly when I'm not supplying a system clock or reset properly.

The message is just saying that the host side software tried to communicate with the processor and failed.

--slacker