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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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10 years ago

Attached is a process for launching and debugging a bare-metal app. I believe the document came from an Arrow/ARM workshop and I have modified it to make sense to me, and have removed those parts that I did not need. Also attached is a zip file with about 40 examples. The one used in the procedure is called "Altera-Cyclone-V_RAM," which runs a Hello World app from RAM on a dev board. This was intended for the Altera SoCkit board, but I believe you can easily adapt it to other dev boards. You will need ARM's DS-5 Altera Edition software, also known as Eclipse apparently. I don't know if straight DS-5, not Altera Edition, will work.

The zip file came from an Arrow/Altera FAE. Keep in mind, the process in the .docx shows you how to run the app in debug. I have not figured out how to run the app in Release mode, or how to cause the board to boot and run the code by itself, presumably from the QSPI flash. Please let me know if you know how to do that.

Ron