What is Golden-Top?

Its a top-level design for the evaluation board.

If you look through the installation for the board, you will likely find a schematic. Look at the schematic and look at the names in golden_top.vhd (if its VHDL) or golden_top.v (if its Verilog). If it really is a golden file, then it should have *all* pins that are assigned in the schematic included as port names on the golden top design.

A top-level file is *not* sufficient to perform a hardware test. You also need a pin assignments file that tells Quartus what pins to use for what signal names on the golden top design. You may also need I/O constraints for voltage, slew-rate, pull-ups etc.

Take the time to review the golden top design with respect to the schematic. Don't be surprised if you find discrepancies in the golden design. I will typically take a golden design and print out the schematic, and then check all of the pins have been defined - I then add the ones that the golden design misses.

Cheers,

Dave