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9 years ago

Connecting the Stratix V FPGA on a Intel based motherboard with windows 8.1

Hi,

I am trying to connect the Stratix V GXEAN-01 board to a Motherboard using PCIe on x16 slot. The PC runs windows 8.1. I have already setup Quartus standard edition with license and have visual studio with Open CL support. Do you have a FPGA build ( a hello world program) which is a simple program to test if the FPGA setup works OK or not ? If I connected the FPGA out of the box should the windows enumerate the device on device manager atleast as unknown device?

I do not see any new (unknown or any) device enumerated on the host PC. I can see that some LEDs light up when I turn on the PC and the heat sink on FPGA is running.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Fasi

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    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

    Development kits (almost) always come with a default load that will demonstrate the basics of it's purpose. PCIe cards generally either ship with such a load already programmed into it or there will be a standard image available with the supporting doc.

    Can you post a link to the board you're referring to?

    Cheers,

    Alex
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    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

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    Development kits (almost) always come with a default load that will demonstrate the basics of it's purpose. PCIe cards generally either ship with such a load already programmed into it or there will be a standard image available with the supporting doc.

    Can you post a link to the board you're referring to?

    Cheers,

    Alex

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    I was informed that the FPGA kit could have been programmed with a test program before it was handed over to me. I don't know which load. Could you please send me a hello program ?

    One of the papers that came with the kit had the following link for downloading the software:

    https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/kit-sv-gx-host.html

    Thanks,

    Fasi
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    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

    The 'hello' program you want comes as part of the 'Kit installation' you can download from that link. Don't expect it to print 'hello world' - it's not that sort of board. However, the sample projects that do come with the kit installation will be appropriate to the board.

    That board does ship with a load that should allow it to do something out of the box. Read the User Guide carefully. Check jumper and dip switch settings.

    Cheers,

    Alex