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Problems with TSE IP Core

Altera_Forum
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Hello, 

 

I seem to be having trouble with the TSE Core. I am using: 

 

- Stratix II GX Board 

- USB Blaster Cable 

- Quartus 8.0 

- Nios II Devleopment Suite 8.0 

 

I am able to download the SOF file to the board either using the quartus_pgm tse_ref_design_top.cdf command as listed in the documentation, or with the Quartus software, but when I try to download the main.elf file, I get the following error: 

 

[niosii eds]$ nios2-download-g main.elf; nios2-terminal 

usinb cable "usb-blaster [usb-0]", device 2, instance 0x00 

assertion "m_state == state_debug" failed: file "nios2oci.cpp", line 157 

7 [sig] nios2-gdb-server 1260 e:\altera\8.0\nios2eds\bin\nios2-gdb-server.exe: *** fatal error - called with threadlist_ix -1 

/cygdrive/e/altera/8.0/nios2eds/bin/nios2-download: line 594: 1260 hangup 

nios2-gdb-server --go --tcpport none --write-pid ./nios2-download.pid ./main.elf.srec 

nios2-terminal: there are no jtag uarts available which match the --device and 

nios2-terminal: --instance options you provided. 

 

Does anybody have any ideas? I am absolutely stumped on what the problem is. 

 

Thank you 

 

edit: i should have said that this is the tse data path reference design ... but anyways, it seems to be working now, without me changing anything ...
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Altera_Forum
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Look on the USB Cable box - what's its revision - B or C? rev.B doesn't work properly with nios2-terminal due to bad niose immunity. Altera mentonied this in the knowlidge base.

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Altera_Forum
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No, I have a rev C. USB Blaster.

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