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9 years ago

Terasic DE10-nano Question - Why does DE0 rbf work on it?

We recently obtained a Terasic DE10-nano development board and installed their Linux Console (kernel 4.5) image on its SD Card, the board booted up as expected. We noticed we could put our old DE0 ra...
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No, the rbf should not be able to configure successfully. Kindly check if the msel is set as 00000 or 01010 and please check if the CONF_D led turns on after booting.

May I know if the code you used is in the FPGA side or HPS side? If you only use the HPS side, as the ARM is the same, it can indeed work properly.

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The msel switches are set 01010. The .rbf code is loaded from the SD card during Linux boot by the ARM. It makes sense that the ARM would still work but not the HDL functionality our C code is using, at least not in my experience.