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GOMEZ_IT
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2 years ago
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ARM DS USB BLASTER or USB BLASTER II ?

Good morning everyone. I have a custom board with the CycloneV SoC on board. This board has 2 JTAG connectors, one for the FPGA configuration and the other for the HPS section. I wanted to know if...
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    GOMEZ_IT
    2 years ago

    UPDATE 07/13/2024:

    After an endless series of tests I finally understood that the problem was simply the fact that I was trying to debug an application compiled to run on the DDR SDRAM, without having initialized the DDR via u-boot!
    Now I can debug ARM DS with both USB-Blaster-II and USB-BLASTER-I (both work)!
    Now I'm trying to understand if there is a driver for ETHERNET that I can use in BARE-METAL mode.
    Does Intel's HWLIB have this driver for CYCLONE V SoC?
    Regards, Luca.

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2 years ago

It's really frustrating. I've been trying to debug the cyclone v soc for weeks. No way.

My situation:

With quartus attaching to the jtag FPGA I have no problem:

With quartus, attaching to the jtag hps I detect this:

With Arm Development Studio IDE (23.1) if I try to debug (with external usb blaster 1) on jtag hps I always get this error:

PATH variables are ok, and the IDE correctly recognizes my usb blaster (version 1):

The PATH variables are ok, and the IDE recognizes My custom card is practically the same as Terasic's DE10-nano (in fact the Linux image of the DE10-nano runs correctly and everything works, including the ethernet port). The only difference is that I have NOT soldered the QSPI flash onto the board.

Could this be the problem?

The MSEL[4:0] are 01010

The BOOTSEL[2:0] are 101 (boot from sd card)

The CLOCKSEL[1:0] are 00