Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorThanks for your help, I am installing the SoC EDS and found those directories.
It is confusing, I am not sure how to program this board's HPS/FPGA through USB because the board has a Linux distribution on it. Perhaps the manufacturer meant that programming occurs on the board in Linux with gcc. However, with the USB Blaster II micro USB, there should be a way to program the board through USB in some sort of binary mode. Perhaps if I study enough, it should be possible to write SDRAM and Flash on the board through the USB connection if this is the way the .sof files are transferred. It might take a month to get the hang of it, I was an AVR32 user with Atmel Studio. That was pretty easy, I hope this is too, but I think they want to prevent programming in binary mode as much as possible. They should just let us program the hardware however we want. It doesn't make sense why they're charging $1000 just to program in binary. Creating a compiler for the Cortex A9 might not be difficult, GNU has one I think already for the Cortex series used in Linux. Maybe the header files are specific to the EDS, not sure, but maybe they could be used with another compiler. Either that or compile one command at a time to get the binary opcodes. Thanks again.
