Altera Arria V SoC - Manual (Page 41)

June 2014 Altera Corporation Arria V SoC Development Kit
User Guide
A. Programming Flash Memory
This appendix describes programming information for the following memory
devices:
■ Common flash interface (CFI) flash memory
■ Quad serial peripheral interface (quad SPI) flash memory
■ SD card flash memory
The Arria V development board’s flash memory comes preconfigured with the
parallel flash loader (PFL) option bits to support FPGA designs to be written to any of
the three locations (
Table A–1 ). The PFL is disabled by default. Set SW2.3 to ON to
enable FPGA programming from CFI flash memory on power up.
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There are several other factory software files written to flash memory to support the
Board Update Portal. These software files were created using the Nios II EDS, just as
the hardware design was created using the Quartus II software.
CFI Flash Memory
CFI Flash Memory Map
Table A–1 shows the default memory contents of the 512-Mb CFI flash device. For the
Board Update Portal to run correctly and update designs in the user memory, this
memory map must not be altered.
c Altera recommends that you do not overwrite the factory hardware images unless
you are an expert with Altera tools. If you unintentionally overwrite the factory
hardware or factory software image, refer to
“Restoring the CFI Flash Device to the
Factory Defaults” on page 3–6 .
Programming CFI Flash Using the Quartus II Programmer
You can use the JTAG interface in Altera CPLDs to indirectly program the flash
memory device. The Altera CPLD JTAG block interfaces directly with the logic array
in a special JTAG mode. This mode brings the JTAG chain through the logic array
instead of the Altera CPLD boundary-scan cells (BSC). The PFL megafunction
provides JTAG interface logic to do the following:
Table A–1. Byte Address Flash Memory Map
Block Description KB Size Address Range
Unused 20316 0x02CA.0000 - 0x03FF.FFFF
User hardware 1 23330 0x0166.0000 - 0x02C9.FFFF
Factory hardware (GHRD) 23330 0x0002.0000 - 0x0165.FFFF
PFL option bits 32 0x0001.8000 - 0x00019FFF
Reset vector 96 0x0000.0000 - 0001.7FFFF