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8 years ago

ARM DS-5 and DE10-Nano

Hello guys, I'm participating from the Innovate FPGA 2018 Contest and I would like to know how we can debug the ARM A9 (that comes with the DE10-Nano from terasic) as an Altera target in ARM D...
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8 years ago

Yes you are right regarding the function of the preloader. The reason you need to update them (for example, DE10 Nano's preloader is stored in the SD Card, you need to update the content of the SD Card to give it a new preloader) is because the default preloader that ships from Terasic is configured to set the UART pins to the HPS, and not to the FPGA world

To generate the preloader, refer to here:

https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrdpreloader

In short, the bsp-editor takes the information from Qsys (for example, the pin muxing information) and generates a project that you can compile (run Make) and

To update the SD Card, follow the instruction here (you will need a Linux machine, or a virtual machine running Linux)

https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrdsdcard