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8 years ago

Cyclone 5 fpga is not booting from spi flash

Hi all, I am trying to boot cyclone 5 (5cgtfd7d5f27i7n) FPGA from QSPI FLASH (epcq128si16n) .I am doing following steps: 1. I compiled counter program for blinking LED in quartux2,assigned FPGA pins,...
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8 years ago

How are your MSEL pins set?

What rate is nSTATUS toggling? It should only ever follow nCONFIG. Any other activity on nSTATUS indicates the FPGA has detected an error in the configuration stream. Refer to the "AS Configuration Timing Waveform", figure 7-4 in the "cyclone v device handbook (https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/hb/cyclone-v/cv_5v2.pdf)".

Cheers,

Alex