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leondietrich
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5 years ago
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Intel Agilex F-Series dev kit cant be programmed by JTAG

Hi, Im officially out of luck. After wasting an entire week on trying to get the programmer to work I posting my question within this forum. I've got multiple bit stream files I'd like to use for ...
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    leondietrich
    5 years ago

    Hi,

    thanks a lot for your help! We've fixed this issue now. One thing we'd like to share, for a potential future reader, is that in addition to the above mentioned article one needs to completely erase the flash prior to configuring. Our working solutions looks like the following:

    1. Power off the board. Waiting for the caps to be drained doesn't seam to be necessary.
    2. Set MSEL[2:0] to ON/OFF/OFF
    3. Power on the board.
    4. Erase the boards flash using the programmer tools
    5. Power off the board.
    6. Set MSEL[2:0] to OFF/OFF/OFF
    7. Power on the board
    8. Programm your *.sof file.

    It's also required to leave the JTAG chain in the default configuration while erasing the flash. Last but not least: If step 8 fails retry a couple of times until it stops failing (we usually don't need more than 3 tries). It also seams to be more reliable (programming fails less often) at 24MHz than 6MHz, which the programmer defaults to anyway.

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YuanLi_S_Intel
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5 years ago

Hi,


May i know which SOF bitstream you are using in the design example? Can you create a simple SOF file with simple input and output initialization and program and see?


Meanwhile for the warning message regarding to CMF, it can be safely ignored.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/support/support-resources/knowledge-base/component/2020/warning--19729---current-cmf-data-structure-hash--0xa2c420ac--is0.html


Thank You.


Regards,

bruce


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leondietrich
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5 years ago

Hi,

from the BTS we've tried bts_config.sof and qsfpdd_xcvr_nrz_25gbps.sof as well as the GPIO example. The Bitstream we've provided above (Have a look inside Hello_World.tar.xz), initializes the I/O and toggles the GPIO and QSFP leds at 1Hz. Besides writing a bitstream generated by the golden top example, I'm out of Ideas what could be more simple.

Also I observed that sometimes, the first JTAG timeout error message occures prior to the 209060 message indicating the start of the programming process.