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ABerg28
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5 years ago

No response to my plea for help: Try again

I am trying to run the NIOS II tutorial that will run the Hello World program. I tried to follow a YouTube tutorial and got stuck at the creation of the BSP step. Kept getting error messages that I d...
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5 years ago

I wrote the OUWNIOS course (targeted at the DE10-Lite). See: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/support/training/course/ouwnios.html

Note that Eclipse isn't shipped natively with Quartus after (I think) version 19.1 . If you redo your pinout, it should be fine, as Nios is supported in all FPGAs.

Qsys was replaced by Platform Designer but its mostly just a name change. For hello world type projects its essentially the same.

Let me know if it works out, else I can get on a quick call with you to sort it out.

Regards,

Larry

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    ABerg28
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    5 years ago

    Larry,

    Thank you for your reply. I'll try the course as you suggest. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "redoing the pins." Do you mean because of the differences between the DE-10 and the DE-0, or is it something else?

    Also, the errors seem to come with trying to create the BSP.

    Finally, here's some free customer feedback. It would be an incredible help if a fresh pair of eyes looked at the wealth of documents that seems to be available here and reorganized it all, particularly reorganizing around what documents support each version of Quartus and what documents are more general. The technology transfer issues around FPGA design are formidable. Trying to teach it is challenging.

    Can you send me your direct e-mail in case we need to set up a chat? Thanks.

    arnie

    aberger@uw.edu

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      ABerg28
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      5 years ago

      I should also add that the NIOS soft core is not available outside of Qsys (Project Builder). It would be nice if I could access it through the base Quartus II tools.

      Arnie

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    ABerg28
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    5 years ago

    I tried your tutorial. I have some comments about it, but I got to the same point as before and got the same error. Your colleague, Boon Beng seemed to identify the source of the error. It seems Quartus version 19.1 and later lacks files. I have to download Unbuntu Linux and then us it to download some Linux files that Eclipse needs, then I need to remember to append .exe to files..... Sigh...

    Doesn't anybody bother to check this stuff out? I noticed in the tutorial that she was using version 17.1, I was using 19.1. Silly me.

    It seems to me that it wouldn't be too difficult to develop automated scripts to run your tutorials on each version of Quartus so you could identify incompatibilities before your customers do.

    Arnie