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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

How can I load a .sof and .elf file to a target using System Console

Hello, I want to use System Console to download my project which consists of a SRAM object file and a .elf file to a target board. Hopefully someone can answer the following questions: ...
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13 years ago

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According to the latest quartus 12.1 documentation device_load_jdi is deprecated.

But device_download_sof is fairly easy to use.

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Sorry, I should have been more explicit in my previous post. device_load_jdi is deprecated, it has been replaced by the design_load command. Compile your project in 12.1 and do design_load <myproject.sof> - this doesn't affect the hardware but it does load all the debug information into SystemConsole.