Received a new 10M08 Evaluation Kit from DigiKey. The instruction blurp with the board says to plug it into USB connector and the 5 red LEDs should flash. When I plug it in, the red LEDs come on and stay that way (no flashing). The green LED also comes on

This is what I have found out.

The LED_Flash project from the Intel Dev Store website and the pre-programmed from factory configuration are using a pin out that does not match the Eval board. Specifically, the CLK is not on the correct pin and therefore the LEDs never blink.

After changing the pinouts to match PCB Schematic, have been able to get it to work after much battling. After many many attempts to program it in various ways, it programmed once and LEDs toggled. Tried programming again and same failure. But it would Auto Detect, Erase, and Examine just fine. So I began touching around on the board and looking at signals an o'scope. Everything seemed OK. Finally noticed if I touched near the JTAG pins at the MAX10 things would sometimes work. After more testing found the only pin I needed to touch was the JTAG TCK at the device. If I touch the JTAG TCK at the J10 connector, it still failed.

See attached picture for the slightest of touch to the pin to make it work. Its NOT a solder pin issue, I can touch the via on the JTAG TCK just under the pin on the back side of PCB and it works also. So, just the smallest of capacitance, seems to clean up the TCK signal.

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Have been able to successfully program both Eval boards repeatedly.