Altera PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition Getting Started - Manual (Page 24)

A–2 Getting Started User Guide Altera Corporation
PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition March 2008
Parallel Flash Loader Tutorial
5. Connect the USB-Blaster cable between the board and the Quartus II
programming host computer.
6. Follow the tutorial steps to program the flash memory.
7. Power down the board, remove the power supply, and set the
power supply switch to OFF.
8. Reinsert the board into the PCI Express slot in computer #1 and turn
the computer ON.
Parallel Flash
Loader Tutorial This tutorial describes how to use the PFL to load an FPGA image into the
Common Flash memory Interface (CFI) type flash device and configure
the Stratix II GX type FPGA device on the PCI Express development
board.
First, you use the Quartus II development tool to prepare and program
the MAX
® II device on the development board with the parallel flash
loader. At the same time, you prepare and download an application to the
flash device on the board. Finally, using the flash data, the PFL configures
the FPGA and activates the application.
The tutorial uses two files included with the development kit:
pfl2_sIIgx_pcie_3fe.pof , in the <path> \stratixIIGX_2sgx90_pcie\
examples\PFL_2SGX_PCIe directory, is the MAX II Programmer Object
File (.pof) that contains a parallel flash loader design.
■ MyFirstFPGA_top.sof , in the
<path>\Examples\stratixIIGX_2sgx90_pcie\examples\MyFirstFP
GA
directory, contains a simple test design that forces the FPGA to
display counting on the development board user LEDs. The SRAM
Object File, MyFirstFPGA_top.sof, is used in the SOF-to-POF file
conversion in the
“Prepare Application File for Downloading” part
of the tutorial.
The tutorial contains three parts:
■ Launch the Quartus II Development Tool
■ Prepare Application File for Downloading
■ Set Up the Programming Download