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12 years ago

SBT Nios II Flash Programmer expects 64 bit System ID?

I've got a strange problem with the SBT Nios II Flash Programmer.

I've tried this with Eclipse 12.0 (helios) and 13.0 (indigo) and it's the same with both.

In short, the error is based around the GUI front end for the programmer thinking the expected system ID should be 64 bits (0xffffffff plus my normal system ID), instead of the normal 32 bits. But then it complains: System ID does not have a valid number format

It does this regardless of whether I use the .sopcinfo or the .bsp to provide system information to the programmer. This is a show-stopper - even if I check the 'ignore mismatched' boxes, the error is still preventing running the programmer from the GUI.

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The connections panel when running or debugging with hardware does NOT do this. The Expected system ID is shown correctly as 32 bits, and the .elf was generated based on the same .sopcinfo / .bsp files.

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    For whatever reason, with later re-generations and .sopcinfo files this has cleared itself up. Standard 32 bit system ID. Very strange.

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    12 years ago

    Just had the same problem, I solved it by going in Qsys and changing the System ID peripheral's System ID: to 12345678, I noticed that it had a negative number in it from when i entered 0xDEADBEEF as the system ID so now that its a positive number it worked for me.:confused: