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snehal_p
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7 months ago

boot file generation using quartus 22.1 standard version

Hello,
We want to build boot image for customized cyclone V SoC board.
We are following the below document, using Quartus Prime 22.1 Standard Edition on Ubuntu 20.04 system,
It is our observation that the FPGA is not being programmed by the rbf file in the fat partition of the sd card.
Can you please share your suggestions/pointers on the above.
Thanks,
snehal_p

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  • Hi @snehal_p ,

    I'm Joshua and I'll try help you on this. Please give me some time to check on the build steps, and I'll get back to you soon.

    Regards,

    Joshua

  • KianHinT_altera's avatar
    KianHinT_altera
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    Hi ,

    Sorry for the delay on this, checked with Joshua, and he will reply you on the solution. The cyclone V build steps in the rocketboard link above only boot HPS without doing the FPGA configuration.

    Thanks

    Regards

    Kian

  • Hi,

    Your observation is right and we will be fixing this in next update which will be going to Altera FPGA Developer Site.

    For now, I suggest the following changes to the steps .

    1. For building hardware section (under the "Get the hardware design from github and compile it:") steps,

    you may add :

    make rbf

    2. For creating sdfs partition in SDcard, add the steps in "Prepare FAT partition:" to include the soc_system.rbf and u-boot.scr file :

    cp $TOP_FOLDER/cv_soc_devkit_ghrd/output_files/soc_system.rbf .
    wget https://releases.rocketboards.org/2025.03/gsrd/c5_gsrd/u-boot.scr

    While the Building Bootloader page for Cyclone V is not available yet, you may view the GSRD (25.1 as at time of writing) at https://altera-fpga.github.io/rel-25.1/embedded-designs/cyclone-v/sx/soc/gsrd/ug-gsrd-cve-soc/

    Hope this helps. Please reach out if you are still facing challenges on this.

    Regards,

    Joshua.

  • KianHinT_altera's avatar
    KianHinT_altera
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    Hi,

    As we do not receive any response from you on the previous question/reply/answer that Joshua have provided. Please login to ‘https://supporttickets.intel.com/s/?language=en_US’, view details of the desire request, and post a feed/response within the next 15 days to allow me to continue to support you. After 15 days, this thread will be transitioned to community support. The community users will be able to help you on your follow-up questions.

    Thanks

    Regards

    Kian