Altera Arria GX - Manual (Page 20)

A–2 Getting Started User Guide Altera Corporation
Arria GX Development Kit October 2007
Using the Parallel Flash Loader
Using the
Parallel Flash
Loader This section describes how to use the PFL to load an FPGA image into the
Common Flash memory Interface (CFI) type flash device and configure
the Arria GX type FPGA device on the Arria GX development board.
First, you use the Quartus II development tool to prepare and program
the MAX
® II device on the development board with the parallel flash
loader. At the same time, you prepare and download an application to the
flash device on the board. Finally, using the flash data, the PFL configures
the FPGA and activates the application.
The tutorial uses two files included with the development kit under
Getting Started\Programming Files
on the CD-ROM:
■ pfl_3fe.pof , which is the MAX II POF that contains a parallel flash
loader design.
■ MyFirstFPGA.sof , which contains a simple test design that forces
the FPGA to display counting on the development board user LEDs.
The MyFirstFPGA.sof file is used in the SOF-to-POF conversion in
the
“Prepare Application File for Downloading” part of the tutorial.
The tutorial contains three parts:
■ Launch the Quartus II Development Tool
■ Prepare Application File for Downloading
■ Set Up the Programming Download