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LFrin
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3 years ago
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Arria 10: Booting U-Boot from SD-Card does not configure FPGA

Hello, I have adapted the example for the Arria 10 SOCDK (Arria 10 SoC - Boot from SD Card) to the HAN-Pilot-Platform evaluation board from Terasic. I used the make_sdimage_p3.py script to generat...
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    LFrin
    3 years ago

    Hi @aikeu,

    okay, now im sure: The Intel In-System Sources and Probes IP hinders the FPGA from starting normally after it has been correctly configured by SD-Card. Even the old Quartus-Project works without the ISSP-IP. Now it makes sense why the FPGA starts when a connection to the programmer is established via JTAG or similar.

    My workaround will be, that i only use FPGA Firmware without the debugging features (ISSP, SignalTap, ...) on the SD-Card and when i need this debugging features i will start the HPS with the ARMD DS debugger.

    Thanks for the help, my problem has been solved.

    Regards,

    LFrin

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    LFrin
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    3 years ago

    Hi @aikeu,

    I only have the evaluation board Han-Pilot-Platform from Terasic and not the Arria 10 SoC Development Kit.

    I don't think I can use the pre-made sd-card image from the link, or am I wrong?

    I load the Terasic prebuild Image Linux LXDE Desktop (Kernel 4.9.78-ltsi) to my SD-Card and the configuration of the FPGA worked as expected:

    Boot Console Arria 10 SoC Terasic Prebuild SD-Card

    They used the old boot-flow in their reference designs, but i need to use the new U-Boot flow, because I want to start the new development with a current Quartus version.

    I am running out of ideas why the FPGA is not configured when booting directly from the SD card, but it works when I use the debugger.