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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

system console model is invalid

I have been trying for some time now to get a very basic Nios design to run. I have built the .sof and downloaded it to the Stratix-III. I have built the BSP and .elf file to simply control the LEDs ...
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13 years ago

If nios2-download is failing to verify then that means there is a problem with your hardware - nios2-download used the OCI core to write the memory locations specified but when it read them back they had different values.

Is the timing OK on the device? What type of memory are you using at address 0? Are there any bridges which could make things go wrong at that address?