[Lancelot] RE: Lancelot Digest, Vol 10, Issue 3

[Derek Simmons]

Are you using Altera's Cyclone board or are you using a third party board?

Without knowing the exact board the EP1C20 Reference Design was targeted for
you might not want to trust the files. I found one other company that makes
an EP1C20 board that can be fitted with the Lancelot.

I recently got it to build for Altera's Stratix II Kit.

You need to get to the point where you can build the reference project in
Quartus II and NIOS SDK. 

Check to make sure that the pin assignments are correct. If the project is
running and the pin assignments are correct you should at least be
outputting to the display garbage if not the correct images.

If you are display garbage on the screen then I would check the pin
assignments for the flash memory.

The cable you are using could be the problem but the software prints out
that message even if you are using the Rev. B cable. Try creating a project
to control the leds or the lcd display. If it works then I suspect the
cable.

Derek

Message: 1
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:07:44 -0800
From: Jowen Yeo <jyeo at shaw.ca>
Subject: [Lancelot] Help with Lancelot reference example
To: lancelot at zytor.com
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Hello,

I am using the Lancelot VGA card with an Altera Cyclone EP1C20 for a school
project.  Right now, I can't even get the Lancelot reference design that is
on the www.fpga.nl website to work.  Here's what I've done:

- followed the instructions in the manual under "5. Reference Designs".
This produced the following error:

Mar 12, 2005 9:01:04 PM - (SEVERE) nios2-flash-programmer:
com.altera.memory.RWM
emoryException: File not found: ../software/lancelot/debug/flash.flash
Mar 12, 2005 9:01:04 PM - (SEVERE) nios2-flash-programmer: Unable to read
input-
data from: ../software/lancelot/debug/flash.flash, exiting


So I...

- program the Cyclone with Lancelot_Cyclone_EP1C20.sof using Quartus, this
performs successfully
- open NIOS II IDE, created a new C/C++ application from the
./software/lancelot location, set the SOPC Builder System as .\nios.ptf, and
CPU as cpu, and included the lancelot_syslib folder as the system library
- I build the project and get the following error: "***
[C:/ece496/lancelot/nios_sim/dummy_file] Error 2"
- I create a empty file called dummy_file in C:/ece496/lancelot/nios_sim and
build again, and it works now
- Select Run.. from the Run menu, click the Run button, and everything seems
to work right since I see the following on the console window:


nios2-terminal: Warning: The JTAG cable you are using is not supported for
Nios
nios2-terminal: II systems.  You may experience intermittent JTAG
communication
nios2-terminal: failures with this cable.  Please use a USB Blaster revision
B
nios2-terminal: cable or another supported cable.  Please refer to the file
nios2-terminal: errata.txt included in the Nios II development kit documents
nios2-terminal: directory for more information.

nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
nios2-terminal: "ByteBlasterII [LPT1]", device 1, instance 0
nios2-terminal: starting in terminal mode only (Control-C exits)

followed by:

Welcome to Lancelot!
====================
Switching image
Switching image
Switching image
Switching image

It keeps outputting Switching image, but my monitor doesn't display
anything, and the status LED keeps going green-orange-green-orange...

After having built the project, the flash.flash file is created, so I try
following the instructions in the user manual again.  It outputs this:

Lancelot Image Loader
===================
This utility loads the flash of
the Altera Cyclone / Stratix Nios Development Board
with the Lancelot PLD configuration, Nios software and images.
Written by Marco Groeneveld

Programming EP1C20 using ByteBlasterII
Info: *******************************************************************
Info: Running Quartus II Convert_programming_file
Info: Command: quartus_cpf --no_banner --convert
../Lancelot_Cyclone_EP1C20.so
user.rbf
Info: Quartus II Convert_programming_file was successful. 0 errors, 0
warnings
    Info: Processing ended: Sat Mar 12 20:48:00 2005
    Info: Elapsed time: 00:00:00
Pre-Reading 434KBytes of data from U5:
    |----.----+----.----|
    ********************* (17.484 sec).
Pre-Reading 65KBytes of data from U5:
    |----.----+----.----|
    ********************* (5.078 sec).
Erasing 2 Sectors:
    |----.----+----.----|
    ********************* (1.593 sec).
Writing 128KBytes :
    |----.----+----.----|
    ********************* (10.297 sec).
Verifying 128KBytes of data:
    |----.----+----.----|
    ********************* (4.984 sec).
Pre-Reading 939KBytes of data from FlashDevice:
    |----.----+----.----|
    ********************* (39.937 sec).
/cygdrive/c/ece496/lancelot-full/flash_image
[SOPC Builder]$

and I press the reset config button on the Cyclone board, but nothing except
the blinking LED.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and yes, the monitor is working.  The
Lancelot is plugged into the J11, J12, J13 pins.  The problem isn't the
parallel cable I'm using with the Cyclone board is it?

Thanks,
Jowen




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