Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS) User Guide

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Date 3/12/2021
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Document Table of Contents x
1. Introduction to the Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS) 2. Installing the Tools 3. Running the Tools 4. SoC EDS Licensing 5. Arm* Development Studio* for Intel® SoC FPGA Edition 6. Boot Tools User Guide 7. Hardware Library 8. Using the HPS Flash Programmer 9. Bare Metal Compilers 10. SD Card Boot Utility 11. Linux* Device Tree Generator 12. Support and Feedback
1. Introduction to the Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS) x
1.1. Notice 1.2. Tool Versions 1.3. Differences Between Standard and Professional Editions 1.4. Overview 1.5. Hardware and Software Development Roles 1.6. Hardware – Software Development Flow 1.7. Introduction to the Intel® SoC FPGA EDS Revision History
1.5. Hardware and Software Development Roles x
1.5.1. Hardware Engineer 1.5.2. Bare Metal and RTOS Developer 1.5.3. Linux* Kernel and Driver Developer 1.5.4. Linux* Application Developer
2. Installing the Tools x
2.1. Installation Folders 2.2. Linux 2.3. Windows 2.4. Installing the Intel® SoC FPGA EDS Document Revision History
2.2. Linux x
2.2.1. Installing SoC EDS 2.2.2. Installing Arm* DS* 2.2.3. Installing Linaro* Bare Metal Toolchain
2.3. Windows x
2.3.1. Installing SoC EDS 2.3.2. Installing Arm* DS* 2.3.3. Installing Cygwin 2.3.4. Installing MinGW 2.3.5. Installing Linaro* Bare Metal Toolchain
3. Running the Tools x
3.1. Linux* 3.2. Windows* 3.3. Running the Tools Revision History
4. SoC EDS Licensing x
4.1. Getting the License 4.2. Activating the License 4.3. Intel® SoC FPGA EDS Licensing Revision History
5. Arm* Development Studio* for Intel® SoC FPGA Edition x
5.1. Arm* DS* for Intel® SoC FPGA Edition Revision History
6. Boot Tools User Guide x
6.1. Introduction 6.2. BSP Generator 6.3. Bootloader Image Tool (mkpimage) 6.4. U-Boot Image Tool (mkimage) 6.5. Building the Bootloader 6.6. Boot Tools User Guide Revision History
6.2. BSP Generator x
6.2.1. BSP Generation Flow 6.2.2. BSP Generator Graphical User Interface 6.2.3. BSP Generator Command Line Interface 6.2.4. BSP Files and Folders 6.2.5. BSP Settings
6.2.1. BSP Generation Flow x
6.2.1.1. Cyclone® V SoC and Arria® V SoC Flow 6.2.1.2. Intel® Arria® 10 SoC Flow
6.2.3. BSP Generator Command Line Interface x
6.2.3.1. bsp-create-settings
6.3. Bootloader Image Tool (mkpimage) x
6.3.1. Operation 6.3.2. Header File Format 6.3.3. Tool Usage 6.3.4. Output Image Layout
6.3.4. Output Image Layout x
6.3.4.1. Base Address 6.3.4.2. Size 6.3.4.3. Address Alignment 6.3.4.4. Padding
6.3.4.3. Address Alignment x
6.3.4.3.1. NAND Flash 6.3.4.3.2. Serial NOR Flash 6.3.4.3.3. SD/MMC
6.4. U-Boot Image Tool (mkimage) x
6.4.1. Tool Options 6.4.2. Usage Examples
6.5. Building the Bootloader x
6.5.1. Building the Cyclone® V SoC and Arria® V SoC Preloader 6.5.2. Building the Intel® Arria® 10 SoC Bootloader 6.5.3. Building the Intel® Stratix® 10 SoC and Intel® Agilex™ Devices
7. Hardware Library x
7.1. Feature Description 7.2. Hardware Library Reference Documentation 7.3. System Memory Map 7.4. Hardware Library Revision History
7.1. Feature Description x
7.1.1. SoC Abstraction Layer (SoCAL) 7.1.2. HW Manager
8. Using the HPS Flash Programmer x
8.1. HPS Flash Programmer Command-Line Utility 8.2. How the HPS Flash Programmer Works 8.3. Using the Flash Programmer from the Command Line 8.4. Supported Memory Devices 8.5. HPS Flash Programmer User Guide Revision History
8.3. Using the Flash Programmer from the Command Line x
8.3.1. HPS Flash Programmer 8.3.2. HPS Flash Programmer Command Line Examples
9. Bare Metal Compilers x
9.1. Arm* Bare Metal Compilers 9.2. Linaro* GCC Compiler 9.3. Bare Metal Compilers Revision History
10. SD Card Boot Utility x
10.1. Usage Scenarios 10.2. Tool Options 10.3. SD Card Boot Utility Revision History
11. Linux* Device Tree Generator x
11.1. Linux* Device Tree Generator Revision History
12. Support and Feedback x
12.1. Support and Feedback Revision History
1. Introduction to the Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite (SoC EDS)
2. Installing the Tools
3. Running the Tools
4. SoC EDS Licensing
5. Arm* Development Studio* for Intel® SoC FPGA Edition
6. Boot Tools User Guide
7. Hardware Library
8. Using the HPS Flash Programmer
9. Bare Metal Compilers
10. SD Card Boot Utility
11. Linux* Device Tree Generator
12. Support and Feedback

1.4. Overview

The SoC EDS contains tools to help you perform the software development tasks targeting the Intel® FPGA SoCs, including:
  • Board bring-up
  • Device driver development
  • Operating system (OS) porting
  • Bare Metal application development and debugging
  • OS- and Linux-based application development and debugging
  • Debug systems running symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)
  • Debug software targeting soft IP residing on the FPGA portion of the device
Major components downloaded and installed with the SoC EDS package include:
  • SoC Hardware Library (HWLIB)
  • Hardware-to-software interface utilities:
    • Second stage bootloader generator
    • Linux* device tree generator1
  • Sample applications
  • Golden Hardware Reference Designs (GHRD) including:
    • FPGA hardware project
    • FPGA hardware SRAM Object File (.sof) file
    Note: The Golden Hardware Reference Designs (GHRD) included with the SoC EDS are not official releases and are intended to be used only as examples. For development purposes, use the official GHRD releases described in the Golden System Reference Design User Manual available on the Rocketboards website.
  • Embedded command shell allowing easy invocation of the included tools
  • SD Card Boot Utility
  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Programmer and Signal Tap
Major components downloaded and installed from a separate download include:
  • Arm* Development Studio* for Intel® SoC FPGA Edition AE Toolkit
  • Compiler tool chains:
    • Linaro* Bare Metal Compiler (GCC)
    • Arm* Bare Metal compiler 5
    • Arm* Bare Metal compiler 6

Download information for these components are located in the Installing the Intel® SoC FPGA EDS section.

Related Information
1 Does not support bsp-editor, which is provided in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version 20.1.
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