BTS not detecting device

Hi deb,

I had exactly the same issue with my newly arrived Cyclone V Dev kit.

I was a bit confused as to whether Version 12.1.1 meant Quartus V12.1 with sp1.

Anyway, I tried

Kit Installation 12.1.1 with Quartus 12.1 sp1 - didn't work - similar message to yours

Kit Installation 12.1.0 with Quartus 12.1 sp1 - total failure

Then I followed the procedure in the quick start menu ("Step 3") to load and run the BTS from the Kit Installation 12.1.1 files.

It all looks good now, the BTS runs.

I think the board and software was probably all ok, it was just that I had not realised that the DEV board boots to run the portal application(D25 lit on my board),

not the BTS application.

The BTS needs the PGM_SEL button pressed and then PGM_Config to select and run the BTS application, D26 lit on my board.

The Portal and BTS apps seem to be mutually exclusive.

I havn't explored the D27 lit application, if any, yet.

Summary ( for my Cyclone V Dev kit )

Kit Installation 12.1.1 with Quartus 12.1 sp1 + loading and running the BTS app from the 12.1.1 kit files as per quick start guide works.

The loading may have been redundant.

BTS does not run at power-up, it has to be selected by PGM_SEL and run by PGM_Config

Cheers, Steve

I am using the arria V starter kit and I've had similar problems. I use quartus II 13.0.1.232, the standalone programmer v 12.1 sp1 build 243 and Win 7 x64. Documents in the board test kit directory suggest that the programming files were built using v 12.1 sp1 build 243 of Quartus.

• I restored the board to factory defaults, as described in the user guide.

• I ran the "qreg.exe --force --jtag –-setqdir" command from the "\qprogrammer\bin" directory for the v 12.1 sp1 build 243 programmer. This was advised in http://www.altera.co.uk/support/kdb/solutions/rd01292013_416.html.

• I ran "BoardTestSystem.exe" from the "\examples\board_test_system\" directory from the starter kit install location. This moaned about a missing Java directory. So I renamed and copied the jre1.6.0_07 folder from the "\examples\board_test_system\" directory to the location given in the dialog box.

After running Quartus II 13 the "BoardTestSystem.exe" said that the wrong version of Quartus II was being used. To fix this I ran "qreg.exe --force --jtag –-setqdir" command as described above.

On my setup the configure menu of the Board Test System GUI has the many FPGA configurations greyed out. As a work around, I closed the Board Test System GUI and then programmed the .sof files using the Quartus programmer for the particular demonstration mode that I wished to run. Once programming was complete I reset using the CPU reset button and started the Board Test System GUI.

Hope this is of help.

Hi,

I have another way to make it works:

1) start quartus 12.1 sp1 (quartus environment variable is automatically updated)

2) download manually 1 of available sof (...\examples\board_test_system\sof\)

3) start BoardTestSystem.exe. close the program and download another .sof to test something else.