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11 years ago

Programming bootROM through USB Blaster II?

This may be odd, but I'm fairly new to Altera technology. I'm used to creating firmware with AVR32 placing programs into internal Flash of the MCU, and I was wondering if there was an equival...
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11 years ago

There's no technical documentation on the board other than DS-5/Quartus II alphanumeric pin names, I've checked everywhere. They just don't want people to program this board in binary. Nothing describes which external component is on what HPS/FPGA port. There are 9 ports for custom external hardware that are configured with 5 bits each but not sure which IC is on which of those ports.

The only way to program this board is to make a Cyclone V compiler that works writing to correct memory locations.

Open Source Cyclone V compiler that works, here we come. I'll make it able to read and write to all memory locations including HPS2FPGA and FPGA2HPS.

But then it would be up to the developer to create drivers to operate external hardware. This will take a couple months.