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Divya_lsai
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4 years ago

A10 GX FPGA Devkit - "DDR calibration failed" and Factory Reset Error

We have tested both the Arria 10 GX FPGA Development kits using the Board Test System (BTS) application and the following are noted, A10 Devkit 1 - S/N 10APCIe0004116 P/N K11695-001 The follow...
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AdzimZM_Altera
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4 years ago

Hi Divya,


The BTS design was created while ago and no longer supported even after updating the Quartus to latest version.


I suggest you to create an example design to check the calibration process.

You can target the Arria 10 GX devkit when creating the example design.

Then you can test it on board to monitor the signal by the Signal Tap tool or you can use the EMIF Debug Toolkit to get the calibration result.


Thanks,

Adzim



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Divya_lsai
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4 years ago

Hello @AdzimZM_Intel,

Thank you for your reply.

As per your suggestion, I generated an example project for A10 GX FPGA Development kit applying DDR4 Hilo preset. I programmed the board and opened the External Memory Interface Toolkit. I set up the Connections and generated the connections report.

DDR4 Calibration passed in A10 Devkit 1 (screenshot 1)
However, it failed on A10 Devkit 2 (screenshot 2)

Then, I exchanged the DDR4 Hilo Daughter cards of both the Devkits and tested. Again, DDR4 was calibrated successfully on A10 Devkit 1 but it failed on A10 Devkit 2.

So, according to my test cases, both the DDR4 daughter cards are working fine with A10 Devkit 1 but not with A10 Devkit 2,

Please let me know what might be the issue.

Thank you!