IDI - Instrumentación de radares

# Tarjetas de desarrollo FPGA

## Guía de programación

### Alorium Sno

#### STEPS

* Solder JTAG and power pins

* Install Quartus Prime Lite Edition

* Install the driver for the USB Blaster

> * Control Panel > Device Manager

> * Search for USB-Blaster

> * Update Driver > Browse > \intelFPGA_lite\18.1\quartus\drivers    

* With Quartus Prime Lite Edition software generate programming file [Assembler]

* Open Quartus Prime Lite Edition

* Go to Tools > Programmer

* Make sure that "USB-Blaster [USB-0]" is selected in Hardware Setup, otherwise click Hardware Setup and in "Currently selected hardware:" select it. Close

* Check the correct FPGA by clicking "Auto Detec" and select 10M16SA

* Click "Add File" and go to the project folder and search and open the programming file, either xxx.sof (lose at powerdown) or xxx.pof

> * project_name/output_files/xxx.pof

* Select <none> file and delete it

* Check the two boxes "Program/Configure" and "Verify" of the main file

* Program the FPGA by clicking "Start"

#### NOTES

* *all steps were done using Windows 7

* When using on-chip memory IP cores change configuration mode to "Single Uncompresed Image with Memory Initialization" inside Device>Device and Pin Options...>Configuration mode

### Alorium XLR8

#### STEPS

* Solder JTAG pins

* Install Quartus Prime Lite Edition

* Install the driver for the USB Blaster

> * Control Panel > Device Manager

> * Search for USB-Blaster

> * Update Driver > Browse > \intelFPGA_lite\18.1\quartus\drivers    

* With Quartus Prime Lite Edition software generate programming file [Assembler]

* Open Quartus Prime Lite Edition

* Go to Tools > Programmer

* Make sure that "USB-Blaster [USB-0]" is selected in Hardware Setup, otherwise click Hardware Setup and in "Currently selected hardware:" select it. Close

* Check the correct FPGA by clicking "Auto Detec" and select 10M08SA

* Click "Add File" and go to the project folder and search and open the programming file, either xxx.sof (lose at powerdown) or xxx.pof

> * project_name/output_files/xxx.pof

* Select <none> file and delete it

* Check the two boxes "Program/Configure" and "Verify" of the main file

* Program the FPGA by clicking "Start"

#### NOTES

* *all steps were done using Windows 7

* Notch of the USB Blaster's connector should face the inside of the board.

* For the use A0-5 pins there is 2 options: analog or digital, both connected to different pins on the FPGA. When used as digital, user has to enable this pins (buffer 3.3V-5V) through 6 pins also connected to the FPGA (see schematic).

* RST pin is active low.

* When using on-chip memory IP cores change configuration mode to "Single Uncompresed Image with Memory Initialization" inside Device>Device and Pin Options...>Configuration mode

### Papilio Pro

#### STEPS

Install ISE Design Suite

With ISE Design Suite software generate programming file [Generate Programming file]

Download the file "Papilio-Loader-2.8-Setup.exe" (1) and install it

Go to the project folder and search for the programming file xxx.bit

Double click and wait for the Papilio Loader to open

·File > Preferences > User Mode > Expert

·In "Target board" field select "Papilio One or Papilio Pro"

·Make sure the "Target .bit file" loaded the correct file

·Do not touch the other fields and in the "Operations" box check "Erase", "Write to" and "Verify"

·In the drop-down menu select either "FPGA" (lose at powerdown) or "SPI flash"

·Click "Do Selected Operations"

#### NOTES

*all steps were done using Windows 7

(1) http://forum.gadgetfactory.net/files/file/10-papilio-loader-gui/

if using VirtualBox make sure to enable USB: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-enable-usb-in-virtualbox/

### TinyFPGA BX

#### STEPS

Install Lattice iCEcube2 (Windows 7)

Install toolchains APIO and tinyprog from the terminal

$ (sudo) pip install apio tinyprog

$ apio install system scons icestorm iverilog

$ apio drivers --serial-enable

Add yourself to the dialout group in order for your user to be able to access serial ports

$ sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

Connect your TinyFPGA BX board and make sure the bootloader is up to date

    tinyprog --update-bootloader

With Lattice iCEcube2 software generate programming file [Generate Bitmap] (Windows 7)

Plug the TinyFPGA BX if it is not already

In a terminal window go to Lattice project folder and search for the programming file

project_name/project_name_Implmnt/sbt/outpus/bitmap/xxx.bin

Program the FPGA

$ (sudo) tinyprog -p xxx.bin

The configuration will reamain until you press the reset button, when it would load the bootloader

When connected to a dumb power supply the configuration will be reloaded after 1 second

#### NOTES

*Windows 7 was ONLY used for iCEcube2, the other steps were done in Ubuntu 14.04

https://tinyfpga.com/bx/guide.html

https://www.instructables.com/id/Getting-Started-With-the-Tinyfpga/

https://github.com/tinyfpga/TinyFPGA-BX

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