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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,

yes both items are checked for the early io build (i worked with this manual).

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    LFrin
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    3 years ago

    Hi,

    Okay, I found something strange. I think that the FPGA is programmed correctly, but does not start.

    As soon as I do anything on the JTAG interface after booting my custom U-Boot SD-Card (Quartus-Programmer-Autodetect/ARM-DS-Debugger/Insert external USB-Blaster/...) the FPGA starts running normally.

    The board has an on-board USB-Blaster-II, I'm afraid this somehow prevents the FPGA from starting. However, I have no idea why and especially I do not know why the supplied SD-Card-Image works without this problem.