'New Nios II Application and BSP from template' Freezing and Unresponsiveness in Eclipse

[admaris]

I have created a Nios II Qsys project in Quartus Std 23.1, and I'm encountering two different issues with Eclipse. 1. When I try to use 'New Nios II Application and BSP from template,' there is no response at all. The action seems to have no effect. 2. On rare occasions, when I do get the 'New Nios II Application and BSP from template' wizard to open and move to the next step, after selecting the .sopcinfo file from my project, the interface freezes and does not proceed further. Could you please help identify the potential causes of these issues and suggest a solution?

[BoonBengT_Intel]

Hi @admaris,

Thank you for posting in Intel community forum and hope all is well.

Just a note, unfortunately for Nios II product it has been deprecated and would advise to move NiosV instead. More details can be found in the link below:

- https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/content-details/781327/intel-is-discontinuing-ip-ordering-codes-listed-in-pdn2312-for-nios-ii-ip.html?DocID=781327

However we would still try our best to get into the challenges you mention on NiosII.

Is this the first time running the NiosII EDS? And what are the OS you have on your machine?

Would suggest perhaps to run the NiosII IDE in the terminal by the command './eclipse-nios2' and observe if there is any java exception or internal error printed.

Also perhaps to check on the NiosII environment setup by running the .sh files in the location below:

- <quartus_install_path>/nios2eds/nios2_command_shell.sh

Hope this clarify

Best Wishes

BB

[admaris]

I ran the command <quartus_install_path>/nios2eds/nios2_command_shell.sh, and after reopening the "Nios II Software Build Tools for Eclipse" from Quartus, I noticed that the Eclipse interface had reverted to an older version. However, when I ran my project again, it no longer hung. I'm not quite sure why running this command resolved the issue, but it worked.

[BoonBengT_Intel]

Hi @admaris,

Good to know that its no longer hanging now. Suspected maybe some of the environment variable maybe corrupted for whatever cause which maybe cause the behavior observed.

The script it seems to be re-instantiated and all are working now.

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Thank you for the questions and as always pleasure having you here.

Best Wishes

BB