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11 years ago

5CSXFC6D6F31- Altera Cyclone V SoC Dev Env

Hi everyone, I have a board with a 5CSXFC6D6F31 on it, and am pretty new to FPGA and ARM lingo after working with the Atmel line of 8 and 32 bit MCU's. Would the ARM DS-5 Altera Edition be...
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11 years ago

The Cyclone V is pretty advanced, but I'm starting to understand it. Looking at the hardware memory addresses, I think I might be able to read/write hardware directly using a sort of register pointer, like this:# define SDR_CTRLCFG (*(volatile uint32_t * const) 0xFFC25000), but for each register on the HPS and the board.

I would like to create a bootROM residing in on-chip ROM, and a Preloader image running in Bare Metal mode.

The manufacturer of the board didn't include any user space or bare metal examples to read or write any of the hardware.

I tried using the Altera software but it's not running on any of my computers so I'm going to have to make a compiler for the board I have.

At $800 a board, I'm surprised the manufacturer didn't give us a way to program their board, and they're not really providing tech support.