Development board setup, Setting up the board, Chapter 4. development board setup – Altera 100G Development Kit, Stratix V GX Edition User Manual
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August 2012
Altera Corporation
100G Development Kit, Stratix V GX Edition
User Guide
4. Development Board Setup
This chapter explains how to set up the Stratix V GX 100G development board.
Setting Up the Board
To prepare and apply power to the board, perform the following steps:
1. The Stratix V GX 100G development board ships with its board switches
preconfigured to support the design examples in the kit. If you suspect your board
might not be currently configured with the default settings, follow the instructions
in
“Factory Default Switch Settings” on page 4–2
to return the board to its factory
settings before proceeding.
2. Connect the +19 V, 120 W to the DC Power Jack (J1) on the FPGA board and plug
the cord into a power outlet.
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Use only the supplied power supply. Power regulation circuitry on the
board can be damaged by power supplies with greater voltage.
3. Set the POWER switch (SW1) to the on position. When power is supplied to the
board, blue LED (D1) illuminates indicating that the board has power.
The MAX II device on the board contains (among other things) a parallel flash loader
(PFL) megafunction. When the board powers up, the PFL reads a design from flash
memory and configures the FPGA. Pressing the PGM_SEL (S8) push-button loads the
design into the FPGA from flash using the PFL in the MAX II device.
When configuration is complete, the MAX_CONF_DN LED (D25) illuminates,
signaling that the Stratix V GX device configured successfully.
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The kit includes a MAX II design which contains the MAX II PFL megafunction. The
design resides in the <install
dir>\kits\stratixVGX_5sgxea7nf45_100g\examples\max2 directory.
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For more information about the PFL megafunction, refer to