Nios V starts in debugging mode, but not in stand-alone mode

[KennyJoosen]

I have migrated a working Nios II/f instance to a Nios V/g one.

When launching a debugging session with RiscFree IDE and JTAG to this Nios V instance, everything operates as expected. However, when running the image with this Nios V instance, the application does not start (at the start log messages should appear, but those are not visible with the JTAG UART terminal).

I have followed the migration guide, but I am probably missing something. Do you have any pointers for me to look at?

[JingyangTeh_Altera]

Hi

The uart terminal NiosV command is different compared to NiosII.

Are you using the juart-terminal command for the NiosV uart?

Besides that, have you tried creating a simple hello world in the NiosV?

Regards

Jingyang, Teh

[KennyJoosen]

Hi,

I am using the juart-terminal command. When launching my application in debug mode with the RiscFree IDE, logging appears on the juart-terminal as expected and the application behaves as expected.

However, the Nios V application doesn't seem to start when being part of the FPGA image and no debugger is attached/launching it, since no logging appears on the juart-terminal (first lines that should be executed in the code) and application seems unresponsive/behaves not-expected (seems to do nothing).

[JingyangTeh_Altera]

Hi

Which boot method that you are using?

In general there are 3 types, Running OnChip Memory , XIP Flash Memory and boot coopier from Flash memory.

https://cdrdv2-public.intel.com/793065/ug-726952-793065.pdf

Section 4.3

[KennyJoosen · Accepted solution]

I found the cause of the issue: the conversion of the ELF file to HEX file went wrong. I was using elf2flash and riscv32-unknown-elf-objcopy commands, while I should have been using the elf2hex command.

Conversion command used now:

elf2hex ${PROJECT_ELF} -o ${PROJECT_HEX} -b 0x00000000 -e 0x0007ffff -w 32 -r 4

[JingyangTeh_Altera]

Hi

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Regards

Jingyang, Teh