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11 years ago

Bittware S5PH-Q 14.0 flash issue

Hi all,

I have recently upgrade my Bittware card to Quartus 14.0 which previously had 13.1.3. I was able to successfully install the BSP and flash the board with the Bittware provided top.rbf using Bittworks. However, when I did a hard reset, my system will no longer boot. I get nothing.

I am running Centos 6.4 and flashed using Bittworks for linux. I was able to talk to the board again by installing it on my windows machine. I erased the flash and reprogrammed it with the same rbf file successfully. I was able to boot my windows machine and still talk to the board. I re-installed on my linux box and still wouldn't boot. For grins, I installed the board on a system running Redhat 5, it wouldn't boot either.

Currently I am compiling a hellowold using 14.0 and will try to flash with the resulting rbf and see what happens. I was thinking the top.rbf that I downloaded from Bittware may be bad.

Another solution could be to reset the board. I only did the erase command in Bittworks.

All these I will try in the next couple days. I have contacted Bittware but haven't heard back from them yet.

Has anyone successfully flashed this particular board?

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    11 years ago

    Bruce,

    Thanks for the reply. I was able to flash and boot on Windows 7 using the Bittware's documentation but I will keep you solution in mind.

    Are you saying that when you flashed using Bittware's top.rbf 14.0 that your machine wouldn't boot either? I'm currently working with Bittware on a solution and feel it would be necessary to report another incident of this happening.
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    11 years ago

    --- Quote Start ---

    Hi all,

    I have recently upgrade my Bittware card to Quartus 14.0 which previously had 13.1.3. I was able to successfully install the BSP and flash the board with the Bittware provided top.rbf using Bittworks. However, when I did a hard reset, my system will no longer boot. I get nothing.

    ...

    Has anyone successfully flashed this particular board?

    --- Quote End ---

    Rudy, I have spent many hours trying different permutations of settings and even different versions of the Altera SDK, and with various Bittware BSP packages. I learned today that if you load the Ver 14.0 top.rbf file with the ""Compressed" box unchecked (it is checked by default and in spite of what the Bittware docs say), then after cycling power my system finally booted ok (before it would not even post).

    I am now running Ver 14 of the Altera SDK; "aocl diagnose" worked just fine for my board.

    KEEP IN MIND that I am running WINDOWS 7 ! This procedure may or may not work for you but will at least give you another option to think about.

    Hope it helps.