New to Altera. Error on Downloading bitstream

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Hi All,

I'm a new to Altera and I have a Cyclone II EP2C35 devkit. I wrote a small VHDL file which waits for one of the SW buttons and toggle a led. I made the pin assignements, synthesis, ....

When I try to download the bitstream into the FPGA, the Error led lights up and the board falls back to the default factory config. However, the messages pane says it has successfully downloaded the bitstream. I do not use SOPC builder. I just want to download my simple circuit into the FPGA.

Do you have any ideas. The starter kit manual did not help as it uses SOPC builder.

Another question : when I download the bitstream, the FPGA is immediately reconfigured right ? I mean, the binary is not put somewhere, and I have to do some operation to get it into the FPGA ?

Thanks

altera_forum · Answer

first of all which interface you use for programming and so check your pin assignments for the fpga because there are some pins you cannot assign as i/o and there are dedicated clocks so you must be aware of pin assignments at first iteration

altera_forum · Answer

you can see all pins' usage and extra functionality in pin planner tool

altera_forum · Answer

I assigned two pins : the Y11 for input as in bit, and W11 for output as out bit.

my interface is :

entity e is port (toggle : in bit; led : out bit) end;

it uses no clock.

I use the USB interface to program the FPGA.

altera_forum · Answer

You should check, if unused pins are configured as inputs with weak-pullup. If they are configured as outputs, they may be conflicting with existing connections at the DevKit.

altera_forum · Answer

Would you please tell me how to do that ?

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