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11 years ago

Arria V Soc Development Kit - getting started

We have several brand new Arria V SoC Development Kits from Arrow. The switches and jumpers are set as per the June 2014 Arriva V SoC Development kit guide. The board boots to Hello Tim! a...
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11 years ago

Alex,

I think our board was shipped with none/wrong FPGA firmware.

The instructions for reloading the 'factory' data were badly flawed (I have not checked to see if they have been updated).

In the end I spent 1/2 an hour on the phone with a chap from Altera as we went through reprogramming the board.

After that it worked for a while but eventually the FPGA stopped loading at boot time again. We had done our eval by then so did not bother resurrecting it.

Also the v 14.0 Linux SD card image did not work on our board. We stuck with 13.1 (the last version to support Win XP).

All in all, a rather disappointing experience.