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Summary of Contents for Altera Cyclone V GX Starter Kit

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Page 2: ...C 17 2 7 UART USB COMMUNICATION 18 2 8 HDMI TX 19 2 9 HSMC 20 2 10 OVERALL STRUCTURE OF THE C5G CONTROL PANEL 21 CHAPTER 3 USING THE STARTER KIT 23 3 1 CONFIGURATION STATUS AND SETUP 23 3 2 GENERAL US...

Page 3: ...DDR2 SDRAM RTLTEST 65 CHAPTER 6 NIOS II BASED EXAMPLE CODES 68 6 1 SRAM 68 6 2 UART TO USB CONTROL LED 71 6 3 HDMI TX 75 6 4 TRANSCEIVER HSMC LOOPBACK TEST 83 6 5 AUDIO RECORDING AND PLAYING 84 6 6 MI...

Page 4: ...lopment board includes hardware such as Arduino Header on board USB Blaster audio and video capabilities and much more In addition an on board HSMC connector with high speed transceivers allows for an...

Page 5: ...pporting materials including the User Manual Control Panel System Builder reference designs and device datasheets User can download this System CD from the web http c5g terasic com 1 1 3 3 L La ay yo...

Page 6: ...5 Figure 1 2 Development Board top view Figure 1 3 Development Board bottom view...

Page 7: ...ontrollers Six 3 125G Transceivers C Co on nf fi ig gu ur ra at ti io on n a an nd d D De eb bu ug g Quad Serial Configuration device EPCQ256 on FPGA On Board USB Blaster Normal type B USB connector M...

Page 8: ...t CODEC Line in line out and microphone in jacks S Sw wi it tc ch he es s B Bu ut tt to on ns s a an nd d L LE ED Ds s 18 LEDs 10 Slide Switches 4 Debounced Push Buttons 1 CPU reset Push Buttons P Po...

Page 9: ...connections are made through the Cyclone V GX FPGA device Thus the user can configure the FPGA to implement any system design Figure 1 4 Board Block Diagram 1 1 5 5 G Ge et tt ti in ng g H He el lp p...

Page 10: ...our host computer and launch the control panel by executing the C5G_ControlPanel exe Specific control circuits should be downloaded to your FPGA board before the control panel can request it to perfor...

Page 11: ...t port you cannot use Quartus II to download a configuration file into the FPGA until the USB port is closed 7 The Control Panel is now ready for use experience it by setting the ON OFF status for som...

Page 12: ...yclone V Starter Kit board Figure 2 2 The C5G Control Panel concept The C5G Control Panel can be used to light up LEDs change the values displayed on 7 segment monitor buttons switches status read wri...

Page 13: ...pl la ay ys s A simple function of the Control Panel is to allow setting the values displayed on LEDs 7 segment displays Choosing the LED tab leads to the window in Figure 2 3 Here you can directly t...

Page 14: ...y Note that the dots of the 7 SEGs are not enabled on Cyclone V GX Starter Board Figure 2 4 Controlling 7 SEG display The ability to set arbitrary values into simple display devices is not needed in t...

Page 15: ...d show the status in a graphical user interface It can be used to verify the functionality of the slide switches and push buttons Figure 2 5 Monitoring switches and buttons The ability to check the st...

Page 16: ...ach the window in Figure 2 6 Figure 2 6 Accessing the LPDDR2 A 16 bit word can be written into the LPDDR2 by entering the address of the desired location specifying the data to be written and pressing...

Page 17: ...exadecimal values For example a file containing the line 0123456789ABCDEF defines eight 8 bit values 01 23 45 67 89 AB CD EF These values will be loaded consecutively into the memory The Sequential Re...

Page 18: ...tab leads to the window in Figure 2 7 2 Insert an SD Card to the Cyclone V GX Starter board and then press the Read button to read the SD Card The SD Card s identification specification and file forma...

Page 19: ...V GX Starter Board The setup is established by connecting a USB cable from the PC to the USB port where the Control Panel communicates to the terminal emulator software on the PC or vice versa The Re...

Page 20: ...ure 2 9 UART to USB Serial Communication 2 2 8 8 H HD DM MI I T TX X C5G Control Panel provides video pattern function that allows users to output color pattern to HDMI interfaced LCD monitor using th...

Page 21: ...ach the window shown in Figure 2 11 This function is designed to verify the functionality of the signals located on the HSMC connector Before running the HSMC loopback verification test follow the ins...

Page 22: ...ware part is implemented in C code the hardware part is implemented in Verilog HDL code with Qsys builder The source code is not available on the C5G System CD To run the Control Panel users should ma...

Page 23: ...22 Figure 2 12 The block diagram of the C5G control panel...

Page 24: ...device Both types of programming methods are described below 1 JTAG programming In this method of programming named after the IEEE standards Joint Test Action Group the configuration bit stream is do...

Page 25: ...he chain via HSMC connector remove JP2 Jumper open pin1 and pin2 on JP2 to enable the JTAG signal ports on the HSMC connector Figure 3 1 The JTAG chain on Cyclone V GX Starter Kit board Figure 3 2 The...

Page 26: ...Configure the JTAG programming circuit by setting the RUN PROG slide switch SW11 to the RUN position See Figure 3 4 Connect the supplied USB cable to the USB Blaster port on the Cyclone V GX Starter...

Page 27: ...artus II Programmer to select a configuration bit stream file with the pof filename extension Once the programming operation is finished set the RUN PROG slide switch back to the RUN position and then...

Page 28: ...t This section describes the user I O interface to the FPGA User Defined Push buttons The board includes four user defined push buttons that allow users to interact with the Cyclone V GX device as sh...

Page 29: ...inputs in a circuit Table 3 2 lists the board references signal names and their corresponding Cyclone V GX device pin numbers Figure 3 7 Connections between the push button and Cyclone V GX FPGA Pushb...

Page 30: ...pressed 3 3 V PIN_AB24 User Defined Slide Switch There are ten slide switches connected to FPGA on the board See Figure 3 9 These switches are not debounced and are assumed for use as level sensitive...

Page 31: ...SW8 Slide Switch 8 1 2 V PIN_Y11 SW9 SW9 Slide Switch 9 1 2 V PIN_AE19 User Defined LEDs There are also eighteen user controllable LEDs connected to FPGA on the board Ten red LEDs are situated above t...

Page 32: ...V PIN_B6 LEDG6 LEDG6 2 5 V PIN_H8 LEDG7 LEDG7 2 5 V PIN_H9 User Defined 7 Segment Displays The FPGA board has four 7 segment displays As indicated in the schematic in Figure 3 11 the seven segments c...

Page 33: ...nections between the 7 segment display HEX0 and Cyclone V GX FPGA Table 3 5 User 7 segment display Pin Assignments Schematic Signal Names and Functions Board Reference Schematic Signal Name Descriptio...

Page 34: ...6 HEX2 HEX0_D2 Seven Segment Digit 2 2 Share GPIO24 3 3 V PIN_U20 HEX2 HEX0_D3 Seven Segment Digit 2 3 Share GPIO25 3 3 V PIN_V22 HEX2 HEX0_D4 Seven Segment Digit 2 4 Share GPIO26 3 3 V PIN_V20 HEX2 H...

Page 35: ...Generator control pins signal names I O standard and their corresponding Cyclone V GX device pin numbers Table 3 6 Clock Source Signal Name Default Frequency Pin Assignments and Functions Source Schem...

Page 36: ...terface is done using UART USB on board bridge from a FT232R chip and connects to the host using a USB Type B connector For detailed information on how to use the transceiver please refer to the datas...

Page 37: ...he datasheet which is available on the manufacturer s website or under the Datasheets SRAM folder on the Kit System CD Figure 3 15 shows the related schematics and Table 3 10 lists the SRAM pin assign...

Page 38: ..._L23 SRAM_D7 Data bus 3 3 V PIN_L24 SRAM_D8 Data bus 3 3 V PIN_H23 SRAM_D9 Data bus 3 3 V PIN_H24 SRAM_D10 Data bus 3 3 V PIN_H22 SRAM_D11 Data bus 3 3 V PIN_J23 SRAM_D12 Data bus 3 3 V PIN_F23 SRAM_D...

Page 39: ...GX FPGA and LPDDR2 Chip Figure 3 17 LPDDR2 and Cyclone V GX FPGA Table 3 11 LPDDR2 Memory Pin Assignments Schematic Signal Names and Functions Schematic Signal Name Description I O Standard Cyclone V...

Page 40: ..._DQ17 Data bus 1 2 V HSUL PIN_AD17 DDR2LP_DQ18 Data bus 1 2 V HSUL PIN_AC18 DDR2LP_DQ19 Data bus 1 2 V HSUL PIN_AF19 DDR2LP_DQ20 Data bus 1 2 V HSUL PIN_AC17 DDR2LP_DQ21 Data bus 1 2 V HSUL PIN_AB17 D...

Page 41: ...V HSUL PIN_AF14 DDR2LP_CKE1 Clock Enable 1 Not use 1 2 V HSUL PIN_AE13 DDR2LP_CS_n0 Chip Select 0 1 2 V HSUL PIN_R11 DDR2LP_CS_n1 Chip Select 1 Not use 1 2 V HSUL PIN_T11 DDR2LP_OCT_RZQ ZQ calibration...

Page 42: ...Functions Schematic Signal Name Description I O Standard Cyclone V GX Pin Number SD_CLK Serial Clock 3 3 V PIN_AB6 SD_CMD Command Response 3 3 V PIN_W8 SD_DAT0 Serial Data 0 3 3 V PIN_U7 SD_DAT1 Seria...

Page 43: ...signments and signal names relative to the Cyclone V GX device Figure 3 20 Connections between the Cyclone V GX FPGA and HDMI Transmitter Chip Table 3 13 HDMI Pin Assignments Schematic Signal Names an...

Page 44: ...T Interrupt Signal 1 2 V PIN_T12 I2C_SCL I2C Clock 2 5 V PIN_B7 I2C_SDA I2C Data 2 5 V PIN_G11 3 3 9 9 A Au ud di io o I In nt te er rf fa ac ce e The board provides high quality 24 bit audio via the...

Page 45: ...development board contains one HSMC connector The HSMC connector provides a mechanism to extend the peripheral set of an FPGA host board by means of add on cards which can address today s high speed...

Page 46: ...an be found bottom right corner near the HSMC connector The factory default setting is OFF meaning the 12V power won t be available to the daughter boards When users need to connect the daughter board...

Page 47: ...3 HSMC Signal Bank Diagram Table 3 16 Power Supply of the HSMC Supplied Voltage Max Current Limit 12V 1A 3 3V 1 5A Table 3 17 Pin Assignments for HSMC connector Schematic Signal Name Description I O S...

Page 48: ...RX bit 3 1 5 V PCML PIN_V2 HSMC_GXB_TX_p0 Transceiver TX bit 0 1 5 V PCML PIN_AE4 HSMC_GXB_TX_p1 Transceiver TX bit 1 1 5 V PCML PIN_AC4 HSMC_GXB_TX_p2 Transceiver TX bit 2 1 5 V PCML PIN_AA4 HSMC_GX...

Page 49: ...PIN_E16 HSMC_RX _p13 LVDS RX bit 13 or CMOS I O LVDS or 2 5 V PIN_D18 HSMC_RX _p14 LVDS RX bit 14 or CMOS I O LVDS or 2 5 V PIN_E20 HSMC_RX _p15 LVDS RX bit 15 or CMOS I O LVDS or 2 5 V PIN_D21 HSMC_R...

Page 50: ..._p13 LVDS TX bit 13 or CMOS I O LVDS or 2 5 V PIN_A23 HSMC_TX _p14 LVDS TX bit 14 or CMOS I O LVDS or 2 5 V PIN_C17 HSMC_TX _p15 LVDS TX bit 15 or CMOS I O LVDS or 2 5 V PIN_C19 HSMC_TX _p16 LVDS TX...

Page 51: ...the I O distribution of the GPIO connector The maximum power consumption of the daughter card that connects to GPIO port is shown in Table 3 18 Table 3 19 shows all the pin assignments of the GPIO co...

Page 52: ...us Signal Name Description I O Standard Cyclone V GX Pin Number GPIO0 GPIO DATA 0 Dedicated Clock Input 3 3 V PIN_T21 GPIO1 GPIO DATA 1 3 3 V PIN_D26 GPIO2 GPIO DATA 2 Dedicated Clock Input 3 3 V PIN_...

Page 53: ...O26 HEX2_D4 GPIO DATA 26 3 3 V PIN_V20 GPIO27 HEX2_D5 GPIO DATA 27 3 3 V PIN_W21 GPIO28 HEX2_D6 GPIO DATA 28 3 3 V PIN_W20 GPIO29 HEX3_D0 GPIO DATA 29 3 3 V PIN_Y24 GPIO30 HEX3_D1 GPIO DATA 30 3 3 V P...

Page 54: ...N_E26 Arduino_IO1 Arduino IO1 3 3 V PIN_K26 Arduino_IO2 Arduino IO2 3 3 V PIN_M26 Arduino_IO3 Arduino IO3 3 3 V PIN_M21 Arduino_IO4 Arduino IO4 3 3 V PIN_P20 Arduino_IO5 Arduino IO5 3 3 V PIN_T22 Ardu...

Page 55: ...The internal conversion clock allows the external serial output data clock SCK to operate at any frequency up to 40MHz The LTC2308 is controlled via a serial SPI bus interface which is connected to p...

Page 56: ...and Functions Schematic Signal Name Description I O Standard Cyclone V GX Pin Number ADC_CONVST Conversion Start 1 2 V PIN_AB22 ADC_SCK Serial Data Clock 1 2 V PIN_AA21 ADC_SDI Serial Data Input FPGA...

Page 57: ...top level design file or place pin assignments The common mistakes that users encounter are the following 1 Board damage due to wrong pin bank voltage assignments 2 Board malfunction caused by wrong...

Page 58: ...4 3 3 U Us si in ng g C C5 5G G S Sy ys st te em m B Bu ui il ld de er r This section provides the detailed procedures on how the C5G System Builder is used Install and launch the C5G System Builder...

Page 59: ...lder window Input Project Name Input project name as show in Figure 4 3 Project Name Type in an appropriate name here it will automatically be assigned as the name of your top level design entity Figu...

Page 60: ...Group GPIO Expansion Users can connect GPIO daughter cards onto the GPIO connector located on the development board As shown in Figure 4 4 select the daughter card you wish to add to your design unde...

Page 61: ...ino daughter cards onto the Arduino connector located on the development board As shown in Figure 4 6 select the Arduino Digital and check the ADC item The System Builder will automatically generate t...

Page 62: ...the development board As shown in Figure 4 7 select the daughter card you wish to add to your design under the appropriate HSMC connector to which the daughter card is connected The System Builder wi...

Page 63: ...esign Users may leave this field empty Project Setting Management The C5G System Builder also provides functions to restore default setting loading a setting and saving users board configuration file...

Page 64: ...y C5G System Builder No Filename Description 1 Project name v Top level Verilog HDL file for Quartus II 2 Project name qpf Quartus II Project File 3 Project name qsf Quartus II Setting File 4 Project...

Page 65: ...f Demonstration Setup and Instructions Power on the C5G board You should now be able to observe that LEDs and 7 SEGs are flashing Press CPU_RESET_n to make LEDs and 7 SEGs all light on Optionally conn...

Page 66: ...st t This demonstration presents a memory test function on the bank of LPDDR2 SDRAM on the C5G board The memory size of the LPDDR2 SDRAM bank is 512MB Function Block Diagram Figure 5 1 shows the funct...

Page 67: ...e C5G_LPDDR2_RTL_Test sof Demonstration Setup Make sure Quartus II is installed on your PC Connect the USB cable to the USB Blaster connector J10 on the C5G board and host PC Power on the C5G board Ex...

Page 68: ...67 Press KEY0 again to regenerate the test control signals for a repeat test Table 5 1 LED Indicators Table 5 2NAME Description LEDG0 Reset LEDG1 If light LPDDR2 test pass LEDG2 Blinks...

Page 69: ...of the associated files can be found in the Demonstrations folder on the System CD 6 6 1 1 S SR RA AM M This demonstration presents a memory test function of SRAM on the C5G board The memory size of t...

Page 70: ...verification The program will show progress in JTAG Terminal when writing reading data to from the SRAM When verification process is completed the result is displayed in the JTAG Terminal Design Tool...

Page 71: ...our PC Power on the C5G board Use USB cable to connect PC and the C5G board J10 and install USB Blaster driver if necessary Execute the demo batch file C5G_SRAM bat for USB Blaster under the batch fil...

Page 72: ...ormat Developers can use a usb cable rather than a RS232 cable to make the FPGA communicate with computer In this demonstration we will show you how to control the leds by sending command on computer...

Page 73: ...rtus Project directory C5G_UART Nios II Eclipse C5G_UART Software Nios II Project Compilation Before you attempt to compile the reference design under Nios II Eclipse make sure the project is cleaned...

Page 74: ...an unrecognized USB Serial Port as shown in Figure 6 4 you should install the UART to USB driver before you run the demonstration Figure 6 4 Unrecognized USB Serial Port on PC To install UART_TO_USB d...

Page 75: ...ned Com Port number On PC Open the putty software and setup the parameter as shown in Figure 6 5 and click open button to open the terminal Figure 6 6 putty terminal setup Make sure Quartus II and Nio...

Page 76: ...erence is composed of two parts the hardware design and the software control program A set of pre built video patterns will be sent out through the HDMI interface and presented on the LCD monitor as t...

Page 77: ...rol allows users to switch current display mode alternatively via the KEY1 push button Table 6 1 Build in Display Modes of the HDMI TX Demonstration Pattern ID Video Format PCLK MHZ 0 640x480 60P 25 1...

Page 78: ...rent HPD and monitor sense state reported in one of the encoder registers If both HPD and monitor sense are confirmed to be asserted the ISR will try to power up the encoder chip and program it to int...

Page 79: ...ab to activate the Generation property page Hit the Generate button below the page to regenerate the SOPC file named as HDMI_QSYS sopcinfo which would be used to update the Nios II BSP project mention...

Page 80: ...on binaries are located at the C5G_HDMI_VPG demo_batch folder accompanied with a set of tools in the form of command line batch file To make a quick start users could follow the listed approaches belo...

Page 81: ...to interact with the on board HDMI encoder Auto Hot Plug Detection The demonstration implements an interrupt driven hot plug detection mechanism which will automatically power on the encoder chip whe...

Page 82: ...zation process and start to sync with the HDMI encoder Video Pattern Switching Pressing the on board push button KEY1 can switch the current display mode alternatively between the build in formats lis...

Page 83: ...hat non CEA 861 D input formats may not be reported in a fully correct way r addr Read the register value of the HDMI encoder at address addr where addr is a 2 digit hexadecimal number w addr data Wri...

Page 84: ...artus II 13 0 Nios II Eclipse 13 0 Demonstration Source Code Quartus Project directory C5G_XCVR_LOOPBACK Nios II Eclipse C5G_XCVR_LOOPBACK Software Nios II Project Compilation Before you attempt to co...

Page 85: ...y yi in ng g This demonstration shows how to implement an audio recorder and player using the C5G board with the built in Audio CODEC chip This demonstration is developed based on Qsys and Eclipse Fig...

Page 86: ...art includes all the other blocks The AUDIO Controller is a user defined Qsys component It is designed to send audio data to the audio chip or receive audio data from the audio chip The audio chip is...

Page 87: ...he C5G board Connect a speaker or headset to LINE OUT port on the C5G board Load the bit stream into FPGA note 1 Load the Software Execution File into FPGA note 1 Configure audio with the Slide switch...

Page 88: ...C5G board provides the hardware and software needed for Micro SD Card access In this demonstration we will show how to browse files stored in the root directory of an SD Card and how to read the file...

Page 89: ...users can open a specified file and read the contents of the file The main block implements main control of this demonstration When the program is executed it detects whether an Micro SD Card is inser...

Page 90: ...C5G_SD_DEMO Software Nios II Project Compilation Before you attempt to compile the reference design under Nios II Eclipse make sure the project is cleaned first by clicking Clean from the Project men...

Page 91: ...B Blaster driver if necessary Execute the demo batch file C5G_SD_DEMO bat for USB Blaster II under the batch file folder C5G_SD_DEMO demo_batch After Nios II program is downloaded and executed success...

Page 92: ...s CD quality audio DAC circuits We use the Nios II processor to read the music data stored in the SD Card and use the Analog Devices SSM2603 audio CODEC to play the music Figure 6 20 shows the hardwar...

Page 93: ...s FAT16 FAT32 file system for reading wave files that is stored in the SD Card In this block only read function is implemented The WAVE Lib block implements WAVE file decoding function for extracting...

Page 94: ...e SD Card and then writes the data to DAC FIFO in the Audio Controller Before writing the data to the FIFO the program will verify if the FIFO is full The design also mixes the audio signal from the m...

Page 95: ...ctory of the Micro SD Card The provided wave files must have a sample rate of either 96K 48K 44 1K 32K or 8K In addition the wave files must be stereo and 16 bits per channel Connect a headset or spea...

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