New Contributor
Regular ContributorHi,
Would it work for you if you try to work towards RSU for your design?
New ContributorHi, sorry for the delayed reply I've been on travel for work.
So, we are still actively using the Stratix 10 dev kit as the base board for an environmental testing platform that we've developed. We previously used the Arria 10 dev kit, but wanted to move to the more powerful Stratix 10 device.
Being unable to have a user design configured at power up continues to be an unfortunate obstacle for us, we currently use the platform by manually configuring the FPGA through Quartus Programmer with each power cycle. This reduces our efficiency and costs us money at test facilities.
I flipped through the remote system update documentation that you linked, I'm not sure that I completely follow it all but it seems pretty complicated and looks like I would need to obliterate the factory image currently in all the boards which makes me nervous to do. The design files for factory recovery of the S10 L-tile GX dev kit is not available on the Intel website, only the H-tile design package is available for download, and thus I would not be able to restore our boards to their factory state should the remote update process not work for some reason.
Personally I'd prefer to wait for Intel to figure out how to do it with the S10 board as shipped from the factory. If Intel is unable to figure out how to do it, we may revert to the Arria 10 boards and forget about the S10 boards, though it would be unfortunate to have to eat that cost as we purchased several of them, not thinking loading a user design would be a challenge.
