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November 2012 Altera Corporation Arria V GT FPGA Development Kit

User Guide

4. Development Board Setup

The instructions in this chapter explain how to set up the Arria V GT FPGA

development board.

Setting Up the Board

To prepare and apply power to the board, perform the following steps:

1. The Arria V GT 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 and Jumper Settings” on page 4–2 to return the board

to its factory settings before proceeding.

2. The development board ships with design examples stored in the flash memory

device. Verify the Load Selector (SW5.3) is in the on (factory) position to load the

design stored in the factory portion of flash memory. Figure 4–1/Figure 4–2 shows

the switch locations on the Arria V GT FPGA development board.

3. Connect the +19 V, 6.32 A to the DC Power Jack (J6) on the FPGA board and plug

the cord into a power outlet.

c Use only the supplied power supply. Power regulation circuitry on the

board can be damaged by power supplies with greater voltage, and a

lower-rated power supply may not be able to provide enough power for the

board.

4. Set the POWER switch (SW1) to the on position. When power is supplied to the

board, blue LED (D1) illuminates indicating that the board has power.

The MAX II 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. The Load Selector (SW5.3) controls which design

to load. When the switch is in the on (factory) position, the PFL loads the design from

the factory 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\arriaVGT_5agtfd7kf40_fpga\examples\max2 directory.

When configuration is complete, the Config Done LED (D16) illuminates, signaling

that the Arria V GT device configured successfully.

f For more information about the PFL megafunction, refer to Parallel Flash Loader

Megafunction User Guide.

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