Altera Arria II GX FPGA - Manual (Page 15)

February 2011 Altera Corporation Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit User Guide
4. Development Board Setup
The instructions in this chapter explain how to set up the Arria II GX FPGA
development board.
Setting Up the Board
To prepare and apply power to the board, perform the following steps:
1. The Arria II GX FPGA 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. The FPGA development board ships with design examples stored in the flash
memory device. Verify the USER_LOAD switch (SW4.4) is set to the off position to
load the design stored in the factory portion of flash memory.
Figure 4–1 shows the
switch location on the Arria II GX FPGA development board.
3. Set the POWER switch (SW1) to the off position.
c
To avoid damage to the board, always have the board POWER switch
(SW1) in the off position before inserting the DC power jack (J4).
4. Connect the DC adapter (+16 V, 3.75 A) to the DC power jack (J4) on the FPGA
board and plug the cord into a power outlet.
c Use only the supplied 16-V power supply. Power regulation circuitry on the
board can be damaged by power supplies with greater voltage.
5. Set the POWER switch (SW1) to the on position. When power is supplied to the
board, a blue LED (D18) illuminates indicating that the board has power.
The MAX II device on the board contains a parallel flash loader (PFL) megafunction.
When the board powers up, the PFL reads a design from flash memory and
configures the FPGA. The USER_LOAD switch (SW4.4) controls which design to load.
When the switch is in the off position, the PFL loads the design from the factory
portion of flash memory. When the switch is in the on position, the PFL loads the
design from the user portion of flash memory.
1 The kit includes a MAX II design which contains the MAX II PFL megafunction. The
design resides in the <install dir>\kits\arriaIIGX_2agx125_fpga\examples\max2
directory.
When configuration is complete, the CONF DONE LED (D14) illuminates, signaling
that the Arria II GX device configured successfully.
f For more information about the PFL megafunction, refer to Parallel Flash Loader
Megafunction User Guide .