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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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aikeu
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3 years ago

Hi LFrin,


Seems that it stucked at trying to perform DDRCAL, it will shows DDRCAL failure after some time if I am correct.

Maybe as you mentioned the pre-built sd image not fully suitable. Anyway can make sure that the SW5 MSEL of your board is already configured to boot from sd card, refering to the HAN Pilot Platform Hardware Manual?


Thanks.

Regards,

Aik Eu