Nios II Debug Client

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Hi, 

is there a fixed installer for the Nios II Debug Client? Or a workaround for the buggy installer?  The installer that came with my "Altera University CD" can't detect Quartus II v6.0 altho the Nios II IDE installer found it w/o any problem.  I'm able to reproduce that problem on 3 other computers that have both Quartus II v6.0 and Nios II IDE v6.0 .  My relevant environment variables: QESS_ROOTDIR=C:\altera\quartus60_web QUARTUS_ROOTDIR=C:\altera\quartus60_web SOPC_BUILDER_PATH=c:\altera\megacore\pci_compiler-v4.1.1\lib\sopc_builder+c:\altera\megacore\ddr_ddr2_sdram-v3.4.0\lib\sopc_builder SOPC_BUILDER_PATH_60=C:\altera\kits\nios2_60_web SOPC_KIT_NIOS2=C:\altera\kits\nios2_60_web  -Pascal

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What the heck is the "Nios II Debug Client"? I'm not aware of any product by that name. 

 The Nios II EDS already provides the IDE and necessary toolchain for debugging. Is this supplied by a 3rd. party (company other than Altera)?  Cheers,  - slacker

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--- Quote Start ---  originally posted by slacker@Aug 15 2006, 01:27 PM what the heck is the "nios ii debug client"?  i&#39;m not aware of any product by that name.  the nios ii eds already provides the ide and necessary toolchain for debugging.  is this supplied by a 3rd. party (company other than altera)?  cheers,  - slacker <div align='right'><{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=17633)  --- quote end ---    --- Quote End ---    The Nios II Debug Client is copyrighted by Altera and Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.  As i mentionned, that software was included on my "Altera University program CD" which came with the Altera DE2.  Nios II Debug Client allows you to compile/upload code with very very very small footprints. It can fit into the onchip memery which I haven&#39;t been able to do in conjunction with the Nios II IDE. Also, you can track nios II registers while running code, single step thru the code, etc.  Has this tool been rendered obsolete by other tools?  See this tutorial for a short overview: http://www.altera.com/education/univ/mater...ion_verilog.pdf (http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/manual/labs/tut_sopc_introduction_verilog.pdf)  By the way, i&#39;ve fixed my problem by finding a workaround. I can manually install it by extracting the zipped content from the installer executable file. Once extracted, you&#39;ll get a directory called "$[31]". Simply copy the content of "$[31]/bin" in your $SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/bin folder.  Now it can be executed via your Nios II shell.  -Pascal

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--- Quote Start ---  originally posted by evilynux+aug 15 2006, 01:58 pm--><div class='quotetop'>quote (evilynux @ aug 15 2006, 01:58 pm)</div>  --- quote start ---  <!--quotebegin-slacker@Aug 15 2006, 01:27 PM what the heck is the "nios ii debug client"?  i&#39;m not aware of any product by that name.  the nios ii eds already provides the ide and necessary toolchain for debugging.  is this supplied by a 3rd. party (company other than altera)?  cheers,  - slacker <div align='right'><{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=17633)  --- quote end ---    --- Quote End ---    The Nios II Debug Client is copyrighted by Altera and Mathematics Department, Macquarie University, Sydney.  As i mentionned, that software was included on my "Altera University program CD" which came with the Altera DE2.  Nios II Debug Client allows you to compile/upload code with very very very small footprints. It can fit into the onchip memery which I haven&#39;t been able to do in conjunction with the Nios II IDE. Also, you can track nios II registers while running code, single step thru the code, etc.  Has this tool been rendered obsolete by other tools?  See this tutorial for a short overview: http://www.altera.com/education/univ/mater...ion_verilog.pdf (http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/manual/labs/tut_sopc_introduction_verilog.pdf)  By the way, i&#39;ve fixed my problem by finding a workaround. I can manually install it by extracting the zipped content from the installer executable file. Once extracted, you&#39;ll get a directory called "$[31]". Simply copy the content of "$[31]/bin" in your $SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/bin folder.  Now it can be executed via your Nios II shell.  -Pascal <div align='right'><{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=17634)</div> [/b]  --- Quote End ---    Hi Pascal,  How did you unzip the installer ? I tried with no success (Winzip 10.0 says that the file is not a valide self extracting archive). Could you help me ?  Thanx.

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--- Quote Start ---  Hi Pascal,  How did you unzip the installer ? I tried with no success (Winzip 10.0 says that the file is not a valide self extracting archive). Could you help me ?  Thanx. <div align='right'><{post_snapback}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=17665)  --- Quote End ---  [/b]  --- Quote End ---    Me too I was not able to unzip with Winzip. Use 7-zip instead: http://www.7-zip.org/ (http://www.7-zip.org/) (Free to download and it works like a charm) http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif   ProfYoda

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It works fine http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif  

Thanx

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We could then add a shortcut in Desktop towards the batch file and adding the ico file 

 Example of my directory files C:\altera\kits\nios2_60\bin\nios2_client\bat\start_shell.bat  Thanks  -Rage

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I do apologize to answer this topic 4 years later... but, actually, I'm looking for the same software.. the Nios II Debug Client.. Can I find my happiness here ? 

 Thank all of you in advance,

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This tool has been renamed to Altera Monitor Program (see here : h**p://university.altera.com/materials/tools/upds/). 

Guess this is you are looking for :  f*p://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Altera_Material/QII_9.0/altera_upds_setup.exe  Hope this helps. Regards.

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exactly! Thank you. I'm testing it right now!