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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,


Can try to troubleshoot with the pre-made image by changing the partition content with the ones that you have built?


  1. dd if=.sfp of=/dev/sdb3 bs=64K //this is to update just the A2 partition with the SPL
  2. Update fit_spl_fpga.itb and u-boot.img


At the mean time I am trying to consult further regarding your previous observations.


Thanks.

Regards,

Aik Eu