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MohanY
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Cyclone V SOC development kit boot up error with factory default settings

Hello,

I am getting the following error with the Cyclone V SOC development kit on powering up. I made sure all the jumpers are set according to the user guide. This is what I am seeing on UART (Tera Term) terminal.

U-Boot SPL 2013.01.01 (Dec 04 2014 - 08:59:41)
BOARD : Altera SOCFPGA Cyclone V Board
CLOCK: EOSC1 clock 25000 KHz
CLOCK: EOSC2 clock 25000 KHz
CLOCK: F2S_SDR_REF clock 0 KHz
CLOCK: F2S_PER_REF clock 0 KHz
CLOCK: MPU clock 925 MHz
CLOCK: DDR clock 400 MHz
CLOCK: UART clock 100000 KHz
CLOCK: MMC clock 50000 KHz
CLOCK: QSPI clock 370000 KHz
RESET: COLD
SDRAM: Initializing MMR registers
SDRAM: Calibrating PHY
SEQ.C: Preparing to start memory calibration
SEQ.C: CALIBRATION PASSED
SDRAM: 1024 MiB
SDRAM: ECC Enabled
ALTERA DWMMC: 0
spl: No MBR signature is found
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

Appreciate any help.

Thanks,

Mohan

  • I solved the problem. There was something wrong with the SD Card image. I tried the factory recovery image & the image from rocketboards.org. They both did not work. We bought 2 boards at the same time and the second one booted up fine. I cloned the image and it worked on the first board. It's unfortunate that you don't a repository of the correct images.

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  • MohanY's avatar
    MohanY
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    Yes, this is a brand new board. I used the SD image that is on the flash card placed on the board.

    When I tried to program the FPGA (factory default - system_max_RevE1.pof) it said "failed". I can see the components in JTAG chain. Do I need to set the SEL CON (three LEDS right next to CPU Rest) in mode 1? The board powers up with LED at 0 lighting up.

    Thank you for your help.

  • MohanY's avatar
    MohanY
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    I solved the problem. There was something wrong with the SD Card image. I tried the factory recovery image & the image from rocketboards.org. They both did not work. We bought 2 boards at the same time and the second one booted up fine. I cloned the image and it worked on the first board. It's unfortunate that you don't a repository of the correct images.

    • martinonorcas's avatar
      martinonorcas
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      I am going through purgatory trying to get my brand new Cyclone V SOC Dev git to boot the Pre compiled Linux image.

      Any help is much appreciated.

      Do you still have a copy of the image that worked for you?

      Would you have at least an image of the board as configured and working?

      Including jumpers, DIPS and lights.

      I only have one board but have been around the loop numerous times with no progress

      Thanks Martin