Figure 18.
About BTS
6.1. Preparing the Board
Several designs are provided to test the major board features. Each design provides
data for one or more tabs in the application. The Configure Menu identifies the
appropriate design to download to the FPGA for each tab.
After successful FPGA configuration, the appropriate tab appears that allows you to
exercise the related board features. Highlights appear in the board picture around the
corresponding components.
The BTS communicates over the JTAG bus to a test design running in the FPGA. The
BTS and Power Monitor share the JTAG bus with other applications like the Nios II
debugger and the Signal Tap II Embedded Logic Analyzer. Because the BTS is designed
based on the Intel Quartus Prime software, be sure to close other applications before
you use the BTS.
The BTS relies on the Intel Quartus Prime software's specific library. Before running
the BTS, open the Intel Quartus Prime software to automatically set the environment
variable
$QUARTUS_ROOTDIR
. The BTS uses this environment variable to locate the
Intel Quartus Prime library. The version of Intel Quartus Prime software set in the
QUARTUS_ROOTDIR
environment variable should be newer than version 14.1. For
example, the Development Kit Installer version 15.1 requires that the Intel Quartus
Prime software 14.1 or later version to be installed.
Also, to ensure that the FPGA is configured successfully, you should install the latest
Intel Quartus Prime software that can support the silicon on the development kit. For
this board, we recommend you install Intel Quartus Prime version 17.0ir3.0.182.
Please refer to the
README.txt
file under
examples\board_test_system
directory.
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