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7 years ago

Various Issues getting started

We're trying some FPGA experiments, and are having issues getting through the Getting Started documentation for the Arria 10 GX here:

https://www.altera.com/documentation/tgy1490191698959.html

We are at step 6:

  • Program the flash memory on the board as follows:

  • Set the AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT environment variable to point the folder that contains your Intel
  • Run the following command to program the flash memory. This command does not use PCIe. It requires only JTAG.

    aocl flash acl0 boardtest.aocx

The current problem I'm having is this: 


$ source /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld/init_opencl.sh
INTELFPGAOCLSDKROOT is set to /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld. Using that.
Will use $QUARTUS_ROOTDIR_OVERRIDE= /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/quartus  to find Quartus
AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT is set to /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld/board/a10_ref. Using that.
Adding /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld/bin to PATH
Adding /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld/host/linux64/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Adding /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld/board/a10_ref/linux64/lib to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$ aocl flash acl0 boardtest.aocx
Cannot find board_env.xml in /home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld/board/s10_ref

Almost any other command I try fails with the error of finding board_env.xml for s10_ref, even though when installing Quartus Pro, I skipped installing the Stratix 10 device.

Trying to install the Stratix 10 device and running as root are giving the same error. Any help is appreciated.

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    7 years ago

    Try "export AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT". If it returns s10_ref instead of a10_ref, check your bashrc and make sure the path is correct. It is probably best to set these environmental variables manually rather than using Altera's init script.

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    7 years ago

    The env variable is set correctly; I'm not sure why it's trying to look for s10_ref, though. 

    
$ echo $AOCL_BOARD_PACKAGE_ROOT
/home/drd/intelFPGA_pro/18.0/hld/board/a10_ref
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    7 years ago

    Okay, That is strange. Have you checked to make sure there is no other variable in your bashrc that is pointing to "s10_ref"? I recommend cleaning up your environment and starting from scratch and setting all the variables manually.

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    7 years ago

    I've double checked my environment, and nothing is pointing to s10_ref. I will try to uninstall and reinstall the software, but any other suggestions are welcome :)