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Jcodesmith
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16 days ago

Trouble Getting started with Stratix 10 SOC

I've recently purchased a Stratix 10 SOC board for experimentation.

Although I've got the out of the box GHRD loaded and working, I've been struggling to get ANY changes I've made properly loaded into it.  For example just changing the sysid in qsys and recompiling, generating the .sof and then converting it to an .rbf and loading it in uboot causes an error:

command 'load' failed: Error -110

I understand that the Stratix 10 has a lot of security to ensure the bitstreams are validated and consistent, etc, and I'm sure this is useful in some contexts.  But is there a way to disable some of this security to help a beginner get to the point where they can quickly start seeing designs loaded and working?

NOTE:  I'm not a total beginner.  I've been experimenting with the Cyclone family (DE10-Nano, etc) for a few years now.  But the Stratix is obviously a whole other level.

Thanks,

 

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  • KianHinT_altera's avatar
    KianHinT_altera
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    1 hour ago

    Hi,
    Really sorry for the long delay in getting back, was out of office.

    First of all , this is the latest stratix10 user guide that we have, just in case if you didnt have it yet. 

    https://altera-fpga.github.io/rel-25.3/embedded-designs/stratix-10/sx/soc/gsrd/ug-gsrd-s10sx-soc/#overview

    Unfortunately, you cannot disable the security or secure device manager (SDM) as all configurations are routed through it, even if advance security features are disabled, SDM still enforces strict boot configuration.

    For changing sysid in qsys , did you also update the device tree and regenerate the files out, also whether you're using Programming File Generator to generate the .rbf out?

    Maybe you can take a look into the github examples on top to see the steps to build for stratix 10 ?

     

    Thanks

    Regards

    Kian