Specifications

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EPXA10 Development Board Hardware Reference Manual
Table 10 shows the board jumper requirements for booting from flash
memory; see “Jumper Configuration” on page 35 for more details.
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For further details about booting the device from flash memory, refer to
the ARM-Based Embedded Processor PLDs Hardware Reference Manual.
Using the Quartus II Software
The Quartus II software can generate a programmer object file (.pof)
containing both hardware and software, for downloading into the eight
EPC2 devices available on the EPXA10 development board. For more
details about the EPC2 devices, see “EPC2 Device Configuration” on
page 22.
Six of the EPC2 devices are dedicated to the PLD hardware image. The
remainder are used for the software image and can be bypassed using
jumper JP57. To boot your system from the EPC2 devices, you must
configure the EPXA10 development board as defined in Table 11 on
page 21.
Table 46 on page 58 provides a list of configuration signals. When power
is applied to the development board, the EPC2 configuration devices load
configuration data into the EPXA10 device, if they have been
programmed. If you change the configuration device’s programming
information, you must turn the board off and on before new information
can be loaded into the EPXA10 device.
The EPC2 devices can be programmed through the JTAG interface; see
“JTAG Programming Chain” on page 41. The EPC2 device can be
programmed with the Quartus II software version 1.1 or higher, using
either the MasterBlaster or ByteBlasterMV download cables.
Table 10. Board Configuration for Booting from Flash Memory
BOOT_FLASH MSEL0 MSEL1 Mode
1 (position 2-3) 0 (position 1-2) 0 (position 1-2) Boot from 16-bit flash
Table 11. Board Configuration for Booting from a Serial Device
BOOT_FLASH MSEL0 MSEL1 Mode
0 (position 1-2) 0 (position 1-2) 0 (position 1-2) Serial