Requirements

• Arrow SoCKit Evaluation Kit
• LCD Module (Terasic VEEK-MT)
• Development Software: Quartus® II 64-Bit Version 13.0.0 Build156 SP0.02 or later
• Micro SD Card (Size：over 4GByte)
• S/W
  • Android 4.0.4(ICS)
  • Linux Kernel 3.7.on Altera BSP (Long-term version to be confirmed)
  • U-boot version 2012.10
• Development PC Specifications
  • OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS 64bit
  • Memory: over 16GB recommended
  • Disk drive space: over 50GB recommended

How to setup Android on the Arrow SoCKit Evaluation Board

Booting Android

1. Configure the Arrow SoCKit Evaluation Board. In order to do this, please check the information from the user manual & website provided by Altera Corporation.
   Linux Getting started on Altera SoC Development Board - Using a SD Card Image
   http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/AlteraSoCDevelopmentBoardSoftwareGettingStarted
   Arrow SoCKit Evaluation Board User Guide
   http://www.rocketboards.org/pub/Documentation/ArrowSoCKitEvaluationBoard/SoCKit_User_manual.pdf
2. Prepare the SD Card supplied with the Evaluation Kit by saving the Android Image file to the SD Card.
3. Turn on the Development Board
4. Use Quartus II to configure the SoCKit using the Sample Design (.sof) file
5. Once the FPGA has been configured, insert the SD Card into the slot (J21).
6. Push the WARM Reset button (KEY6)
7. The terminal will show the Linux booting
8. LCD Display will show the Android Boot Animation
9. LCD Display will show Andoid Home Screen

Sample Application "API Demo"

You can use this application to test the performance.

<How to use it>

1. Click the menu button (Figure 1)
2. Click the 'API Demos' icon (Figure 2)
3. Scroll down to select Graphics
4. Scroll down again to select Open GL ES.

This menu will provide you with several graphical demos.

The "Kube" options shows a 3D graphic animation and the "Sprite Text FPS" options shows the current Frames Per Second performance



Figure 1: Android Home Screen

Figure 2: Android Applications Screen

Adding Applications

It is easy to implement any Android application following the steps below:

1. Simply store the Android "Demo_Image" file on the SD Card and insert it into a PC or Laptop running Linux OS
2. The Linux PC will shw that the "Demo_Image" file has four partitions. See figure 3 below.
3. The names for each partition are in brackets in the image below.
4. You can add the Android Application APKs into partition 2 (Folder "ROOFTFS) => then insert it into subfolder "ROOFTS/data/app".
5. You can add images ( .JPG or .PNG) to partition 4 (Folder "DATA"). You can save these anywhere inside this folder
6. Save your app or image to the SD Card and insert it into the board.

GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR IP - Block Diagram

Demo Video - GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR running on SoCKit

'This video shows the SocKit Evaluation Board Android 4.0.4 ICS demo running on top of the Altera Linux BSP with FUJISOFT's GRAPHICS ACCELERATOR IP.'

Free Evaluation Downloads

• AndroidDemo_Arrow+TerasicMT_sdimage.zip [MD5HASH]5BD9EA3194D94E5FD11FE62D8FAAD431
• AndroidDemo_Arrow_TerasicMT_sdimage.tar.gz [MD5HASH_for_tar.gz]4347be057b0c9930e4faf089b4f6a446
• soc_system_terasic-mt_hwlimited1h.sof