Starter board setup, Setting up the board, Chapter 4. starter board setup – Altera Arria V GX User Manual
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November 2014
Altera Corporation
Arria V GX Starter Kit
User Guide
4. Starter Board Setup
The instructions in this chapter explain how to set up the Arria V GX starter board.
Setting Up the Board
To prepare and apply power to the board, perform the following steps:
1. The Arria V GX starter 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
Default Switch Settings” on page 4–2
to return the board to its factory settings
before proceeding.
2. The starter board ships with design examples stored in the flash memory device.
Verify the DIP switch SW4.3 is set to the off (1) position to load the design stored in
the factory portion of flash memory.
shows the DIP switch locations on
the starter board.
3. Connect the +19 V, 6.32 A power adapter to the DC Power Jack (J17) 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.
4. Set the POWER switch (SW5) to the on position. When power is supplied to the
board, the blue LED (D30) illuminates indicating that the board has power.
The MAX V 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. FAC_LOAD (SW4.3) controls which design to
load. When the switch is in the factory off (1) position, the PFL loads the design from
the factory portion of flash memory.
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The kit includes a MAX V design which contains the MAX V PFL megafunction. The
design resides in the <install
dir>\kits\arriaVGX_5agxfb3hf35_start\examples\max5 directory.
When configuration is complete, the Config Done LED (D12) illuminates, signaling
that the Arria V GX device configured successfully.
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For more information about the PFL megafunction, refer to the
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