My desktop (not the machine mentioned in the title) had been working fine with Quartus, but when my class go to the point where we were going to work with assembly, AMP is having some issues. After much frustration trying to solve it, I eventually used a machine at the university where Quartus and AMP were already installed to compile the assembly and step through as it ran. Now, we're on the second assignment using assembly, and I've taken the time to do a fresh install of Win7 on my laptop, assuming whatever issues I'm having on my desktop are unique to it (no one else in the class has had issues and the professor couldn't figure out why it was exhibiting the behavior it was). After installing Windows 7, I did the following:
Although I doubt it has any chance of affecting my issue, I will mention that two files failed to install during the University Program install on both my laptop and desktop; they were something_HAL.d and .o in some examples folder, which is why I highly doubt they have any bearing on the issue.
On my fresh install, I redid the assignment entirely on my laptop. The only things I did not redo from scratch were the verilog and assembly files since I had already looked over them for errors several times. I create the project in AMP, hit Finish, and it asks if I want to load it onto the board. I say yes, it says it loaded it successfully, then I get a message about how I'm using a time sensitive feature (although the time remaining says Unlimited) with only one button (Disconnect), which I click. I'm not sure in what way it "disconnects" whatever it is disconnecting, but I'm wondering if it might be related to the issue that I run into next. I hit the button in AMP to compile & load so that I can step through the instructions as it works. Part-way through, I get this error: http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/so...7162014_6.html (the only difference being the numbers on the first line for the USB connection).
I read what the above page says, look through various forum posts online of people receiving similar messages (trying out any solutions I can find), double-check all of my settings, and finally just redo the assignment again from scratch (going through Qsys, etc.) only to receive the same error. Wanting to make sure there isn't something wrong with my installation, I try last week's assignment, downloaded straight from where I submitted it (so I know the files are current and work) and receive the same error. I regenerate in Qsys, recompile in Quartus, etc. and nothing changes; my file that I know should work (it did on the machines at the university) exhibits the same behavior as my new assignment.
And this is the point I'm lost at. I've ran out of things to try. If you're curious about the specifics of the assignment, last week's was simply instantiating the Nios II processor a modified version of the simple counter program in the tutorial (file is Introduction_to_the_Altera_Qsys_Tool.pdf, at least as my instructor uploaded it; I doubt he bothered to change the name). This week's assignment is doing the same thing but simply running a different assembly program, which can be found in section 10 of Nios2_introduction.pdf (still short program that does a dot product). I'll attach the .v and .s files for the current assignment; they should be pretty much the same as detailed in the pdfs aside from white space and comments, but maybe there's some error causing all my troubles that I'm overlooking (although I doubt it since last week's assignment isn't working on the laptop either).
Any help at all is appreciated, and if there's any other information I can provide that would be helpful, please let me know.
- Installed drivers for the video card, trackpad, etc.
- Installed Google Chrome
- Installed Quartus II Web Edition v13.0 SP1 (I know it's not current; its the version the professor has instructed us to use, and the one installed on all of the machines at the university)
- Installed Altera Monitor Program (through the University Program installer)
Although I doubt it has any chance of affecting my issue, I will mention that two files failed to install during the University Program install on both my laptop and desktop; they were something_HAL.d and .o in some examples folder, which is why I highly doubt they have any bearing on the issue.
On my fresh install, I redid the assignment entirely on my laptop. The only things I did not redo from scratch were the verilog and assembly files since I had already looked over them for errors several times. I create the project in AMP, hit Finish, and it asks if I want to load it onto the board. I say yes, it says it loaded it successfully, then I get a message about how I'm using a time sensitive feature (although the time remaining says Unlimited) with only one button (Disconnect), which I click. I'm not sure in what way it "disconnects" whatever it is disconnecting, but I'm wondering if it might be related to the issue that I run into next. I hit the button in AMP to compile & load so that I can step through the instructions as it works. Part-way through, I get this error: http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/so...7162014_6.html (the only difference being the numbers on the first line for the USB connection).
I read what the above page says, look through various forum posts online of people receiving similar messages (trying out any solutions I can find), double-check all of my settings, and finally just redo the assignment again from scratch (going through Qsys, etc.) only to receive the same error. Wanting to make sure there isn't something wrong with my installation, I try last week's assignment, downloaded straight from where I submitted it (so I know the files are current and work) and receive the same error. I regenerate in Qsys, recompile in Quartus, etc. and nothing changes; my file that I know should work (it did on the machines at the university) exhibits the same behavior as my new assignment.
And this is the point I'm lost at. I've ran out of things to try. If you're curious about the specifics of the assignment, last week's was simply instantiating the Nios II processor a modified version of the simple counter program in the tutorial (file is Introduction_to_the_Altera_Qsys_Tool.pdf, at least as my instructor uploaded it; I doubt he bothered to change the name). This week's assignment is doing the same thing but simply running a different assembly program, which can be found in section 10 of Nios2_introduction.pdf (still short program that does a dot product). I'll attach the .v and .s files for the current assignment; they should be pretty much the same as detailed in the pdfs aside from white space and comments, but maybe there's some error causing all my troubles that I'm overlooking (although I doubt it since last week's assignment isn't working on the laptop either).
Any help at all is appreciated, and if there's any other information I can provide that would be helpful, please let me know.