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aejjeh
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Case #: 00288368 - Unable to configure Arria 10 GX FPGA Development Kit for OpenCL

I am trying to configure our Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA Development Kit for use with the OpenCL SDK by following thefollowing guide. I am able to reach "Installing the OpenCL Runtime Driver - step 3". Ho...
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I believe I was able to confirm that using /sbin/reboot or just restarting windows 7 does not blow way the FPGA that is configuring using quartus_pgm in the "Initializing the Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA Development Kit for use with OpenCL" steps of AN 807.

Basically I watched the behavior of the on board LEDs. From a cold boot they act very different than after the top.sof is programmed via jtag. After a reboot, they do NOT revert to the same behavior as after a cold reboot.

So now I'm stuck. Both in Windows 7 and in Ubuntu 16.04 I get to the "aocl flash boardtext.aocx" step and only get the help message like my arguments are wrong. At this point I have a $5,000 paper weight.