F-Tile JESD204B Intel® FPGA IP Design Example User Guide

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Date 10/02/2023
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2.6. Compiling and Testing the Design

The JESD204B Intel® FPGA IP parameter editor allows you to run the design example on a target development kit.

Perform the following steps to compile the design and program the development board:

  1. Launch the Intel® Quartus® Prime software and compile the design (Processing > Start Compilation).
    The timing constraints and pin assignments for the design example and the design components are automatically loaded during design example compilation.
  2. Connect the development board to the host computer either by connecting a USB cable to the on-board Intel® FPGA Download Cable II component or using an external Intel® FPGA Download Cable II module to connect to the external JTAG connector.
  3. Launch the Clock Control application that is included with the development board, and set the clock settings according to the selected data rate.
    Table 8.  Clock Settings
    Clock Name Clock Frequency
    refclk_xcvr Select the frequency for the transceiver PLL reference clock in the IP parameter editor.
    refclk_core Select the frequency for the core PLL reference clock in the IP parameter editor.
    mgmt_clk 100 MHz
    Figure 6. Clock Control GUI SettingThis example shows the clock control GUI setting for a design example running at 6.144 Gbps on an F-Tile device using the Intel Agilex® 7 I-Series Transceiver-SoC Development Kit.
    Note: For Si539-A, set OUT9A with the same values as OUT9 to avoid clock frequency calculation issues. Refer to the Intel Agilex® 7 I-Series FPGA and SoC FPGA website for more information.
  4. If you are performing external loopback test for designs targeting Intel Agilex® 7 I-Series Transceiver-SoC Development Kit (F-Tile), attach the FMC+ loopback module at the FMC+ connector A (J7D).
  5. Configure the FPGA on the development board with the generated programming file (.sof file) using the Intel® Quartus® Prime Programmer.
To run the hardware testing using the Tcl script, refer to the Hardware Test for System Console Control Design Example section.