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8 years ago

a10gx board installation on Linux system - errors

An a10gx board previously used on a Windows machine with a 16.1_pro package w/o any problems (installed, initialized (flash was programmed with 'acl0 boardtest.aocx', loaded and ran 'hello-world' and...
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8 years ago

I discovered - quite by accident - that *NOT* performing the soft reboot (Step 5) is essential.

I skipped that step, and performed the next step (Step 6), and suddenly everything started working.

I have no idea why that would be, other than that the A10 board somehow loses all the configuration you send to it via the jtag command after the soft reboot and before "aocl flash acl0 boardtest.aocx" step.