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12 years ago

Getting started with bare-metal application development with the Cyclone V

First post! Hello fellow FPGA enthusiasts. This is my first foray into the wide world of SoC development. A bit of background. I'm pretty much fresh out from University and work for a cons...
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12 years ago

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First off, I would be spending lots of time on rocketboards.org if I were you (there's a getting started link for your board there).

Baremetal: I would recommend using u-boot as a basis for any "stand alone" baremetal coding. It is straightforward to modify and has a large user base. You might also be able to make use of the DS-5 examples here.

For production, I don't recommend using anything other than Linux on the ARM SoC. Yes, it is possible, but it is non-trivial.

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Thank you for your quick reply Mr. Slacker,

I started with rocketboards.com and the quick start guide pretty much tells me how to get Linux up and running on the Cyclone V. In our application we will not be using Linux at all. We pretty much can't, which is unfortunate. I have messed around with U-Boot with the i.MX6 and I don't see how that is going to help me learn the Cyclone V system. UBoot can be used to boot bare metal code but doesn't help learning how to write bare metal code.