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10 years ago

How to start with MAX10 evaluation board?

Hi guys.

This is my first post here. First of all I would like to say that I am very new to the world of FPGAs. I have quite a lot knowledge with microcontrollers, but now I want to start programming FPGA, too.

I have this max10 evaluation board (https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/kit-max-10-evaluation.highresolutiondisplay.html). I have installed all necessary software. I tried to follow this tutorial (http://www.terasic.com.tw/attachment/archive/956/max10neek_my_first_fpga.pdf), but at the end, when I run the compilation, it failed. Now, one problem is that, I don't have exactly the same board as it is used in this tutorial. Maybe I did something wrong with pin assignment.

I would like to ask, if there is any tutorial, which I can follow step by step, for my evaluation board? Or do you suggest any other way how and where to start? I would be very grateful for any kind of advice.

Thanks,

Matic

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    10 years ago

    Hi matic_o,

    which error does occur?

    Do you use the USB Blaster?

    Regards

    Jérôme
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    10 years ago

    Which board do you have? Which tutorial did you follow? Can you link to it? What was the error? We'll help, we just don't have quite enough info yet. The Max 10 is a good platform to learn on.

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    10 years ago

    Hi.

    Thank you both for your replies. The tutorial is linked in my first post. It's hard to see the actual link. Direct link is here:

    http://www.terasic.com.tw/attachment/archive/956/max10neek_my_first_fpga.pdf

    Anyway, I already found the problem. When I followed steps I choosed the whole MAX10 eval board (this one that I have) and not bare MAX10 chip, there where device has to be choosen. Thus, in Pin Planner I got all pins configured somehow, instead of only those 4-5 pins for LEDs, CLK and switch. When I choosed a bare MAX10 chip and then configured only these 5 pins in Pin Planner, everything works!

    Thank you