Configuration of Cyclone 10 LP with jrunner software

[MRR]

Hi,

I'm trying to use jrunner to configure a Cyclone 10 LP FPGA through a low memory footprint microcontroller (~100 kByte RAM).

Unfortunately, Cyclone 10 LP documentation states this is possibile, but no Cyclone 10 device is listed in the source code of jrunner.

Please notice that JAM player is not suitable, as it requires an amount of RAM greater than the size of the uncompressed configuration file (~1.8 MBytes in my case). In fact, the inner data caching algorithm is not working yet, and not so easy to implement, due to the usage of data compression.

Is there any possibility to add inside jrunner, in the device list, Cyclone 10 parameters?

Best regards,

                           MRR

[Fakhrul]

Hi MRR,

My apologies for the delay in responding. As you may know, JRUNNER is a legacy tool, and unfortunately, there is no current or planned support for 10 series devices. However, we took some extra steps and managed to gather resources to address your request.

Attached, you’ll find the updated jb_devices.h file, which includes the specific Cyclone 10 LP device. This is part of the JRUNNER source code and should help you add the support you were looking for.

I hope this proves helpful. Please let me know if you have further questions.

Best regards,

Fakhrul

[Fakhrul]

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[MRR]

I arranged to solve the problem writing by myself a JTAG driver. It works, the FPGA is configured and initialized, but a little problem remain: the CRC error output is set immediately after the configuration, even if the FPGA itself continues to work. At the moment the firmware is ignoring that flag, but it could be interesting to use it to determine internal bitstream corruption.

Thank you