Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit User Guide

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Date 2/21/2024
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5. Board Update Portal

This chapter explains how you can connect to the Board Update Portal and use it to upload your own designs.

The Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit ships with the Board Update Portal design example stored in the factory portion of the flash memory on the board. The design consists of a Nios® II embedded processor, an Ethernet MAC, and an HTML web server.

When you power up the board with the SW4.3 DIP switch in the FACT ON (logic 0) position, the FPGA configures with the Board Update Portal design example. The design can obtain an IP address from any DHCP server and serve a web page from the flash on your board to any host computer on the same network. The web page allows you to upload new FPGA designs to the user hardware 1 portion of flash memory and provides useful kit-specific links and design resources.

After successfully updating the user hardware 1 flash memory, you can load a design from flash memory into the FPGA. To do so, set the SW4.3 DIP switch to the FACT OFF (logic 1) position and power cycle the board.

The source code for the Board Update Portal design resides in the <install dir>\kits\cycloneVGT_5cgtfd9ef35_fpga\examples directory.