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11 years ago

Bare-Metal vs RTOS for advanced control systems - Cyclone V SX

Dear community, I’m fairly new to the SoC-World and I have a few things I would like to discuss with you guys. I have to design a board with the new Cyclone V SXF SoC system for my company. ...
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Now Baremetal applications may only be debugged in DS-5, and not started independent on power + from flash with regular Altera-s Preloader without semihosting support.

If for task solution is enough only original Altera-s SoC and run your program in debugger, may use current state, else need demand to Altera for revision and upgrade Preloader, about that I scream long time ! :)

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Hi WitFed,

So bare-metal applications cannot boot on their own from SD-Card or QSPI Flash? I have to have a usb cable attached and configure via JTAG to run bare-metal applications?

But what do OSes or RTOSes have that makes them able to boot on their own?

Are you sure about this? Because the following tutorial tells you how to boot bare-metal applications from SD-card:

(please google "HPS SoC Boot Guide - Cyclone V SoC Development Kit" and click on the first result)

I didn't actually get it to work myself though...

Thanks

Claudia