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AD-FMCDAQ3-EBZ Arria 10 GX Quick Start Guide

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NOTE:
Support for the A10GX carrier is discontinued and will not be supported in future releases. Last pre-build images can be found at Nios2 Linux on the Altera FPGA Development Boards page.

This guide provides some quick instructions on how to setup the AD-FMCDAQ3-EBZ on A10GX

Prerequisites

Required Hardware

Required Software

  • You need a Host PC (Windows)
  • Intel Quartus 21.2
  • Bitfile and Linux ELF image
  • IIO Scope Download

Setting up the hardware (A10GX)

You will need to: arria10-fpga-kit.jpg

  1. Get the A10GX board.
  2. Connect the AD-FMCDAQ3-EBZ FMC board to the FPGA carrier FMC1 socket(J1).
  3. Connect the USB JTAG J3 (Micro USB) to your Host PC.
  4. Connect the Ethernet cable.
  5. Plug the Power Supply into 12V Power input connector (DC Input).
  6. Turn it on.

All the products described on this page include ESD (electrostatic discharge) sensitive devices. Electrostatic charges as high as 4000V readily accumulate on the human body or test equipment and can discharge without detection.

Although the boards feature ESD protection circuitry, permanent damage may occur on devices subjected to high-energy electrostatic discharges. Therefore, proper ESD precautions are recommended to avoid performance degradation or loss of functionality. This includes removing static charge on external equipment, cables, or antennas before connecting to the device.

Programming the FPGA

Nios II Command Shell is used to program the FPGA. To run Nios II Command Shell navigate to C:\intelFPGA_pro\21.2\nios2eds and start Nios II Command Shell.bat. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) needs to be installed in order to run Nios II Command Shell.

After starting the Command Shell, navigate to the path where the pre-build images are saved. For example:

ceshu@LADACE-L02:/mnt/c/intelFPGA_pro/21.2/nios2eds$ cd /mnt/c/Users/ladace/Downloads/a10gx_daq3_2016_r1/

Programming FPGA bitfiled image

To flash the bitfield pre-build image, nios2-configure-sof command is used. For example:

ceshu@LADACE-L02:/mnt/c/Users/ladace/Downloads/a10gx_daq3_2016_r1$ nios2-configure-sof daq3_a10gx.sof
Searching for SOF file:
in .
  daq3_a10gx.sof

Info: *******************************************************************
Info: Running Quartus Prime Programmer
Info: Command: quartus_pgm --no_banner --mode=jtag -o p;./daq3_a10gx.sof
Info (213045): Using programming cable "USB-BlasterII [USB-1]"
Info (213011): Using programming file ./daq3_a10gx.sof with checksum 0x31481D0D for device 10ax115s3f45e2sge3@1
Info (209060): Started Programmer operation at Mon Dec 13 15:59:20 2021
Info (209016): Configuring device index 1
Info (209017): Device 1 contains JTAG ID code 0x02E060DD
Info (209007): Configuration succeeded -- 1 device(s) configured
Info (209011): Successfully performed operation(s)
Info (209061): Ended Programmer operation at Mon Dec 13 15:59:35 2021
Info: Quartus Prime Programmer was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings
    Info: Peak virtual memory: 1747 megabytes
    Info: Processing ended: Mon Dec 13 15:59:35 2021
    Info: Elapsed time: 00:00:21
    Info: System process ID: 22372

Programming Linux image

To flash the Linux pre-build image, nios2-download command is used. For example:

ceshu@LADACE-L02:/mnt/c/Users/ladace/Downloads/a10gx_daq3_2016_r1$ nios2-download -g zImage
Using cable "USB-BlasterII [USB-1]", device 1, instance 0x00
Pausing target processor: OK
Initializing CPU cache (if present)
OK
Downloaded 4705KB in 5.2s (904.8KB/s)
Verified OK
Starting processor at address 0xC4000000

Nios II Terminal

To start the Nios II Terminal use the following nios2-terminal.exe command. Example of console:

Complete kernel boot log (Click to expand)

Complete kernel boot log (Click to expand)

ceshu@LADACE-L02:/mnt/c/Users/ladace/Downloads/a10gx_daq3_2016_r1$ nios2-terminal.exe
nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
nios2-terminal: "USB-BlasterII [USB-1]", device 1, instance 0
nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)

Linux version 4.4.0-08393-g0e78611 (dragos@dragos-debian) (gcc version 5.3.0 (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2016.05-10) ) #149
 Mon Jun 6 18:30:22 EEST 2016
bootconsole [early0] enabled
early_console initialized at 0xf01814f0
On node 0 totalpages: 65536
free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c0695f8c, node_mem_map c06b98c0
  Normal zone: 512 pages used for memmap
  Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
  Normal zone: 65536 pages, LIFO batch:15
pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 65024
Kernel command line: debug console=ttyJ0,115200
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Sorting __ex_table...
Memory: 252976K/262144K available (2957K kernel code, 93K rwdata, 672K rodata, 3016K init, 99K bss, 9168K reserved, 0K c
ma-reserved)
NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0
clocksource: nios2-clksrc: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604467 ns
Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 200.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=400000)
pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
devtmpfs: initialized
cpu cpu0: Error -2 creating of_node link
clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
NET: Registered protocol family 16
clocksource: Switched to clocksource nios2-clksrc
NET: Registered protocol family 2
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
RPC: Registered udp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
101814f0.serial: ttyJ0 at MMIO 0x101814f0 (irq = 2, base_baud = 0) is a Altera JTAG UART
console [ttyJ0] enabled
console [ttyJ0] enabled
bootconsole [early0] disabled
bootconsole [early0] disabled
loop: module loaded
spi_altera 10181400.spi: base f0181400, irq 74
libphy: altera_tse: probed
altera_tse 10181000.ethernet (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): MDIO bus altera_tse-0: created
altera_tse 10181000.ethernet: Altera TSE MAC version 15.1 at 0x10181000 irq 3/4
mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Altera XCVR probed
iio iio:device0: ad9528 setup
ad9528 spi32766.0: probed ad9528-1
ad9144 spi32766.1: Probed.
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ad9467 spi32766.2: AD9680 PLL LOCKED
cf_axi_dds 10024000.axi-ad9152-hpc: Analog Devices CF_AXI_DDS_DDS MASTER (8.00.b) at 0x10024000 mapped to 0xf0024000, pr
obed DDS AD9152
cf_axi_adc 10010000.axi-ad9680-hpc: ADI AIM (9.00.b) at 0x10010000 mapped to 0xf0010000, probed ADC AD9680 as MASTER
Freeing unused kernel memory: 3016K (c02e5000 - c05d7000)
Starting logging: OK
Initializing random number generator... random: dd urandom read with 34 bits of entropy available
done.
Starting network...
altera_tse 10181000.ethernet eth0: device MAC address b2:94:3d:6e:11:8f
altera_tse 10181000.ethernet eth0: TSE revision f01
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 1 ch 0 CDR/CMU PLL & RX offset calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 1 ch 1 CDR/CMU PLL & RX offset calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 1 ch 2 CDR/CMU PLL & RX offset calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 1 ch 3 CDR/CMU PLL & RX offset calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: RX transceiver ready
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 0 ATX PLL calibration OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 0 ch 0 TX termination and VOD calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 0 ch 1 TX termination and VOD calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 0 ch 2 TX termination and VOD calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: Link 0 ch 3 TX termination and VOD calib OK
altera_xcvr 10000000.daq3_axi_jesd_xcvr: TX transceiver ready
altera_tse 10181000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 1Gbps/Full - flow control off
Network cable is plugged
udhcpc (v1.24.2) started
Sending discover...
Sending select for 10.48.65.112...
Lease of 10.48.65.112 obtained, lease time 21600
deleting routers
adding dns 10.32.51.110
adding dns 10.64.53.110
          inet addr:10.48.65.112  Bcast:10.48.65.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
Starting dropbear sshd: OK
Starting IIO Server Daemon

Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login:

IIO Oscilloscope

To connect the board to IIO Scope start the IIO Oscilloscope application and go to Settings menu and then press Connect. From Select or Discover libIIO Context select Manual and enter the URI in the following format ip:<your_board_ip> Press the Refresh button and then Connect.

To determine the IP of the board, in Nios II Command Shell login using root and password analog. Then run the ifconfig command. For example:

ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr B2:94:3D:6E:11:8F
          inet addr:10.48.65.112  Bcast:10.48.65.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:21439 errors:0 dropped:3572 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:64 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3694234 (3.5 MiB)  TX bytes:4008 (3.9 KiB)
          Memory:10181000-101813ff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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iioscope_connect.jpg

To plot the captured waveforms go to File menu then click New Plot. Select the channels to plot and then click Capture / Stop button.

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resources/eval/user-guides/ad-fmcdaq3-ebz/quickstart/a10gx.txt · Last modified: 01 Mar 2023 10:25 by Paul Pop