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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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13 years ago

Hi,

i had the same problem. In my case I had an external PLL which was resetted, too. Maybe it took to much time to get a lock again and the Connection failed. I solved it by not allowing the system to reset before downloading the ELF File.

Its a checkbox in the IDE under Run../Run Configuration/Target Connection/"Reset The Selected Target System". Untick it and it works. ;)