Problems when downloading onto EP1S10F780C6

Altera_Forum · ‎01-20-2005

Now, I am working on this board with Quartus 4.2 and Nios II IDE 1.1. After following the instruction from "Getting Start" document, I cannot download the "hello world" onto this board. The following is the error message:

Using cable "ByteBlasterII [LPT1]", device 1, instance 0x00

Pausing target processor: OK

Reading System ID at address 0x021208B8: does not match

ID value does not match: read 0x264D0112; expected 0x0422EB02

Timestamp value does not match: image on board is older than expected

Read timestamp 16:40:25 2004/11/25; expected 10:05:49 2005/01/20

The software you are downloading may not run on the system which is currently

configured into the device. Please download the correct SOF or recompile.

Restarting target processor

Because I am using the stardard.sof file given with Nios II IDE 1.1, is there a problem?

Altera_Forum · ‎01-20-2005

neo,

This is telling you that something in the system has been updated but the hardware (.sof) was not re-compiled; a common cause of this is if you open the hardware portion of the design in SOPC Builder, edit something, and then close (or re-generate).. such actions will update the time-stamp in the configuration (.ptf) file that stores information about your system. You should either turn-off the system-ID checking mechanism in the IDE (if you know that you have not made any system changes), or re-generate in SOPC Builder, and re-compile in quartus to get a new .sof.

Altera_Forum · ‎01-20-2005

I would regenerate since the hardware seems to be a few months old (then recompile your software after). After that everything should be fine.

Altera_Forum · ‎01-20-2005

I ran the "re-generate" in SOPC Builder then ran the "start-complie" from Quartus II 4.2 "processing" menu.

Then I run the "start" from Quartus ---> Programmer.

Then I re-build the "Hello World" and tried to download it onto board. But I failed again and got the following error message:

Using cable "ByteBlasterII [LPT1]", device 1, instance 0x00

Pausing target processor: not responding.

Resetting and trying again: FAILED

Leaving target processor paused

Altera_Forum · ‎01-20-2005

BadOmen/Jesse,

Thank you very much for your help on this issue.

Now, it seems I almost solved that problem when I got the following information:

Using cable "ByteBlasterII [LPT1]", device 1, instance 0x00

Pausing target processor: OK

Reading System ID at address 0x021208B8: verified

Downloading 00000000 ( 0%)

Downloading 01000020 ( 0%)

Downloading 01010000 (94%)

Downloaded 68KB in 2.1s (32.3KB/s)

Leaving target processor paused

But I also got the following warning message ...

nios2-terminal: Warning: The JTAG cable you are using is not supported for Nios

nios2-terminal: II systems. You may experience intermittent JTAG communication

nios2-terminal: failures with this cable. Please use a USB Blaster revision B

nios2-terminal: cable or another supported cable. Please refer to the file

nios2-terminal: errata.txt included in the Nios II development kit documents

nios2-terminal: directory for more information.

nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable

nios2-terminal: "ByteBlasterII [LPT1]", device 1, instance 0

nios2-terminal: starting in terminal mode (Control-C exits)

Hello from Nios II!

So must I use USB Blaster revision B cable?

And from the "Getting Started" document, it seems OK when the "Hello World" is printed onto the terminal window of the Nios II IDE.

If I want to print something out onto the LCD, how could I do?

Thanks,

Neo

Altera_Forum · ‎01-20-2005

You can use a ByteBlaster cable, but if you are in a noisy environment then you might have problems with nios2-terminal or the debugger disconnecting or unexpectedly reporting errors.

See the web server example, file web_server.c for an example of how to print to the LCD.