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11 years ago

Porting Custom Code on SD

Hi, I have successfully managed to boot Linux on Cyclone 5 SoC with SD card. I also run 2 applications (hello & led_blink) which were already present in the prebuilt sd card image taken off ...
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11 years ago

You will need to create a Makefile to build your application. See the DS-5 documentation for some examples. Once you have built your application, the easiest way to transfer it to the SD card is to mount it on a Linux system. I had a virtual CentOs Linux machine running under VMware player (free version) on my windows PC, so that's what I use.

You can also connect your board with Ethernet and set up DS-5 to automatically copy the application, but the setup is more complicated.