BeMicro FPGA-based MCU Evaluation Board

On Reinstall I used version 11.0sp1 Build 208. I really thought I had 11.1SP2 but it isn't this time. I am going to install driver from 11.0 and hope it makes a difference. Will let you know.

Files and versions now match yours. Now it actually shows the blaster.

I do apologize for my obstinance earlier. I see that you are right it was a driver issue. I have no idea why the newest has a defective driver and the old "working" version didn't.

So if I understand it correctly if I have a design placed etc for just the FPGA it should actually process without the risc chip and the ram?

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On Reinstall I used version 11.0sp1 Build 208. I really thought I had 11.1SP2 but it isn't this time. I am going to install driver from 11.0 and hope it makes a difference. Will let you know.

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Thanks.

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Files and versions now match yours. Now it actually shows the blaster.

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That sounds encouraging.

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I do apologize for my obstinance earlier.

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No worries :)

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I see that you are right it was a driver issue. I have no idea why the newest has a defective driver and the old "working" version didn't.

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Yeah, what a PITA.

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So if I understand it correctly if I have a design placed etc for just the FPGA it should actually process without the risc chip and the ram?

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Yep. I use the BeMicro for the FPGA. I could care less about the DDR, ethernet, etc. The 80-pin edge connector can be used to interface to a protoboard (Arrow list it). I use that interface.

Cheers,

Dave

I am not sure I did it right as my results really did not work.

In the project I compiled I am able to flash the FPGA just fine with the results and it works. I added another file to the project with a JIC extension as a Serial Bitstream File. (I think I am missing a step here because next I compiled). I compiled and it finished successfully. Then in the programmer I Attached Flash Device. Added my jic file as its source and told the programmer to flash and it fails at 0%. Is there anything special about making Quartus II put out bitstreams so I can have this run my code on start up rather then the default flashed bitstream. I did back up the factory JIC and will keep it as it is neat. That worked perfectly.

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In the project I compiled I am able to flash the FPGA just fine

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Do you mean 'configure' the FPGA just fine? If you program the FPGA using the USB-Blaster circuit, then it configures the SRAM inside the FPGA, there is no 'flash' (but perhaps you were just misusing terminology).

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I added another file to the project with a JIC extension as a Serial Bitstream File. (I think I am missing a step here because next I compiled). I compiled and it finished successfully. Then in the programmer I Attached Flash Device. Added my jic file as its source and told the programmer to flash and it fails at 0%. Is there anything special about making Quartus II put out bitstreams so I can have this run my code on start up rather then the default flashed bitstream. I did back up the factory JIC and will keep it as it is neat. That worked perfectly.

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I haven't used the onboard EPCS device. Post a new thread asking how to configure those devices. The question is not specific to the BeMicro, so the question will just get lost in this thread.

Cheers,

Dave