Altera Max10 FPGA User manual

Board Update Portal based on NIOS II

Processor Using the MAX 10 FPGA

Development Kit

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Revision history

Version

Author

Date

Changes

Reason

1.0

Martin Chen

6/1/2015

Initial release

Table of Contents

Revision history.............................................................................................................................2

Table of Contents..........................................................................................................................3

Overview .......................................................................................................................................4

Theory of Operation......................................................................................................................5

Simple Demo Setup......................................................................................................................6

How to recompile the hardware build ...........................................................................................8

Convert SOF file to POF file .........................................................................................................9

How to recompile the software build...........................................................................................10

Convert NIOS executable file to .flash file..................................................................................11

Program images into On-chip CFM flash and external QSPI flash ...........................................12

Overview

This example design is a web-server based board update portal (BUP) design which contains

a Nios® II processor, a Triple Speed Ethernet media access control (MAC) MegaCore® and a

DDR3 MegaCore®. It allows you to remotely update a FPGA system over Ethernet, for an

example, it can be used to update the firmware of an embedded FPGA system. The design is

based on Ethernet A port on MAX 10 FPGA development kit, please download and install the

BTS installer for more details about BUP design.

The following external parts are needed to demonstrate the design example:

1. MAX10 10M50DA FPGA Development kit

2. Mini-USB cable for programming MAX 10 device

3. Quartus v15.0 or later

Recompile the design example

Recompile the software build

Use NIOS command shell to download SOF and ELF file and get IP address info

Quartus v15.0.0/145 or later is required for this design example. Please refer to the

Altera Download Center for information on updates

4. IMPORTANT: only use the 12V, 2A AC adapter that came with this kit. Do not use

other power supplies from other Altera kits



Figure 1: Max10 FPGA Development Kit

Theory of Operation

Nios® II Core

AVMM

Master

UART

AVMM

Master

QSPI Flash DDR3 SDRAM On-Chip Memory

(Optional)

Ethernet Core SGDMA TX SGDMA RX

On-Chip

Description Memory

Figure 2: BUP design example block diagram

The Nios® II processor is used to implement a web server in MAX 10 FPGA device. Please

see application note AN429: Remote Configuration Over Ethernet with the Nios® II Processor

(PDF) to learn more about remote update. Also, more information about Embedded Peripheral

IP can be found at IP Peripheral User Guide.

Simple Demo Setup

1. Connect the power cord to the power plug of the kit

2. Connect a mini USB from your PC/laptop to the J12 USB connector (labeled as USB 1 on

the silkscreen) on the top left of the kit

3. Connect Ethernet cable to Ethernet port A (the bottom one)

Figure 3: BUP test platform

4. Open NIOS command shell and change to project root directory

5. Type “nios2-configure-sof --cable 1 --device 1 master_image/m10_rgmii.sof;sleep

5;nios2-download -g –r software_examples/factory_image/web_server.elf;nios2-

terminal;”

6. Check whether it gets corresponding IP address as expected

Figure 4: Link establishment and IP address acquirement

How to recompile the hardware build

Please follow the steps on the Design Store web page to extract and install the m10_rgmii

platform file. The following steps describe how to setup a project in Quartus II software in order

to configure the MAX10 FPGA device with the m10_rgmii (BUP) demo design.

1. Launch Quartus II software and open the project top.qpf using File->Open Project

2. Compile the project by clicking the button

3. Launch the Quartus II programmer from the Tools menu or alternatively by clicking the

button

4. Download the .sof file output_files/top.sof and program the device using the programmer

as previously described

Figure 5: Link establishment and IP address acquirement

Convert SOF file to POF file

Please follow the steps on how to convert SOF file to POF file for MAX 10 FPGA internal

configuration solution. For dual configuration feature, please turn to the "Selecting the Internal

Configuration Scheme" section of the User Guide for more details.

1. Launch Quartus II software and open the Convert Programming File tool

2. Select Internal Configuration mode

3. Add Sof Page

4. Add file

5. Generate POF file for output_files/top.sof

Figure 6: Link establishment and IP address acquirement

How to recompile the software build

Please follow the steps on how to recompile the software build under different conditions.

1. Compile the software build without any modifications

a) Open NIOS command shell (v15.0.0/145 or later) and change to the directory: <BUP

Root Directory> \software_examples\app

b) Type in the command “./create-this-app”

c) The compilation will take you a few minutes (it depends on your PC performance), and

generate an output file named web_server.elf

2. Recompile the software build with some modifications of BSP file

a) Open NIOS command shell (v15.0.0/145 or later) and change to the BSP directory:

<BUP Root Directory> \software_examples\bsp

b) Type in the command “make”

c) Change to the directory <BUP Root Directory> \software_examples\app after BSP

recompilation

d) Type in the command “make”

e) The compilation will take you a few minutes (it depends on your PC performance), and

generate an output file named web_server.elf

3. Recompile the software build with some modifications of APP files

a) Open NIOS command shell (v15.0.0/145 or later) and change to the directory <BUP

Root Directory> \software_examples\app

b) Type in the command “make”

c) The compilation will take you a few minutes (it depends on your PC performance), and

generate an output file named web_server.elf

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