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Hi guys. I am new to FPGA world and seems like I am having some difficulties with the flash programmer that I cannot understand. Its giving me an error code 1 which I am unable to find a reference to.
Purpose of the implementation: test out different functionality of the DE2-115 board. The FPGA part of the program includes SW, KEY, LED, and lcd, all of which is connected to the nios system generated from Qsys Qsys: includes clk, cpu, onchip memory, jtag uart, sysid, epcs flash controller and a bunch of PIOs. Here is what I did: 1. set cpu reset vector to epcs. 2. export externals of epcs flash controllers. it gives me the following input/outputs:
epcs_flash_controller_external_dclk => CONNECTED_TO_epcs_flash_controller_external_dclk, -- epcs_flash_controller_external.dclk
epcs_flash_controller_external_sce => CONNECTED_TO_epcs_flash_controller_external_sce, -- .sce
epcs_flash_controller_external_sdo => CONNECTED_TO_epcs_flash_controller_external_sdo, -- .sdo
epcs_flash_controller_external_data0 => CONNECTED_TO_epcs_flash_controller_external_data0 --
3. apply terisic patch. as suggested in their manuals to include nios-2-flash-override # EPCS64N(lead-free)sector_size = 65536
sector_count = 128
# EPCS128N(lead-free)
sector_size = 262144
sector_count = 64
3. import some predefined pin assignments given by terasic. 4. On the Dual-purpose pins page (Assignments > Devices > Device and Pin Options), thefollowing pins are assigned to "Use as regular I/O": Data[0], Data[1], DCLK = Use as regular I/O, FLASH_nCE/nCS0 5. perform port map u0 : component test_niosqsys port map (
clk_clk => CLOCK_50, -- clk.clk
lcd_external_RS => LCD_RS, -- lcd_external.RS
lcd_external_RW => LCD_RW, -- .RW
lcd_external_data => LCD_DATA, -- .data
lcd_external_E => LCD_EN, -- .E
pio_key_external_connection_export => KEY, -- pio_key_external_connection.export
pio_sw_external_connection_export => SW, -- pio_sw_external_connection.export
poi_led_external_connection_export => dataop, -- poi_led_external_connection.export
reset_reset_n => KEY(0), -- reset.reset_n
epcs_flash_controller_external_dclk => DCLK, -- epcs_flash_controller_external.dclk
epcs_flash_controller_external_sce => FLASH_nCE, -- .sce
epcs_flash_controller_external_sdo => DATA1, -- .sdo
epcs_flash_controller_external_data0 => DATA0 -- .data0
-- reset.reset_n
);
Node Direction Fitter Location
Data0 Input PIN_AA14
Data1 Output PIN_V1
dclk Output PIN_AG12
FLASH_nCE Output PIN_AD14
6. program the fpga. 7. open nios IDE, select BSP Editor from where all components of Settings->Advanced->hal->linker we disabled 8) built the program and select run as NIOS II hardware. At this point the program is correctly loaded and starts execution. however, upon pressing nios 2 reset key, the program stops since the epcs has not been flashed. 9. open up nios ii flash programmer from nios2 ide. confirmed timestamp and system id to be a match. add the sof and elf files with default settings. ... press start; and end up with an error saying elf2flash --input="/media/rash-ed-u/ubuntu/altera/workspace/nios_cpu/software/prog/prog.elf" --output="/media/rash-ed-u/ubuntu/altera/workspace/nios_cpu/flash/prog_epcs_flash_controller.flash" --epcs --after="/media/rash-ed-u/ubuntu/altera/workspace/nios_cpu/flash/nios_test2_epcs_flash_controller.flash" --verbose
nios2-flash-programmer "/media/rash-ed-u/ubuntu/altera/workspace/nios_cpu/flash/prog_epcs_flash_controller.flash" --base=0x81000 --epcs --sidp=0x82040 --id=0x0 --timestamp=1425416806 --device=1 --instance=0 '--cable=USB-Blaster on localhost ' --program --verbose
Error: Error code: 1 for command: nios2-flash-programmer "/media/rash-ed-u/ubuntu/altera/workspace/nios_cpu/flash/nios_test2_epcs_flash_controller.flash" --base=0x81000 --epcs --sidp=0x82040 --id=0x0 --timestamp=1425416806 --device=1 --instance=0 '--cable=USB-Blaster on localhost ' --program --verbose
any idea what might be wrong with what i am doing? Thanks Cheers Rashed
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found the fix:
These scripts are not compatible with dash, so modify the first line from# !/bin/sh to# !/bin/bash in the folowing files: sof2flash elf2flash elf2hex bin2flash sh_jar.sh reference: http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/quartus_for_debian_wheezy- Mark as New
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found the fix: http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/quartus_for_debian_wheezy
These scripts are not compatible with dash, so modify the first line from# !/bin/sh to# !/bin/bash in the folowing files: sof2flash elf2flash elf2hex bin2flash sh_jar.sh
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