New ContributorBlinking a LED on DE10-Lite board (MAX10 FPGA)
Hello everybody out there using FPGAs,
I'm new to FPGA development and trying to blink a LED on the DE10-Lite board.
I carefully followed the steps on "How to program your first FPGA device" (https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/articles/how-to-program-your-first-fpga-device.html), but the assignment of the pins on the DE10-Lite board differs as far as a understand.
I think I will have to adapt the lines
module blink ( input wire clk, // 50MHz input clock output wire LED // LED ouput );
but renaming them according to the pin assignment planner didn't really help.
I can always compile the design and upload it with the USB interface, but none of the LEDs on the board is blinking.
When compiling the design I get a warning equivalent to the following for each pin:
Warning (10034): Output port "DRAM_ADDR" at DE10_LITE_Golden_Top.v(46) has no driver
I'm not sure whether this is a problem.
I would be grateful for hints on which additional diagnostics to use in order to pin down the problem.
If you have a DE-10 board and you're following those instructions, you shouldn't have to change anything. I don't understand the warning you get because there is no DE10_Lite_Golden_Top.v file.
My guess is that when you went through the New Project Wizard, you either selected a project template (instead of Empty Project) or on the Family, Device, and Board Settings page, you selected a board from the Board tab instead of selecting the specific device on the Device tab. Doing either of these might create an example top-level file (DE10_Lite_Golden_Top.v) that is now getting used instead of blink.v. You can verify this is the issue by looking at the name of the top-level entity in the Project Navigator in the upper-left corner of the tool
The easiest thing to do would be to start from the beginning and follow the instructions carefully, but if you don't want to do that, go to the Project menu and select Add/Remove Files in Project. Make sure only your blink.v and .sdc file are listed. Then, with blink.v open, again from the Project menu, select Set as Top-Level Entity. Recompile and try again.
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