SPC "Delta" experiences of using SoCrates board v1.1 (with 5CSXFC6C6U23C8NES), made despite of documentary vacuum about this board at the moment.

The project is very simple, but involves the whole stack of development operations. That's what we needed for understanding how to use this SoC on practice.

Project includes two parts:

1. Hardware - Golden Top Quartus 13 project with simple HPS system generated with Qsys and LEDs blinking logics, driven with FPGA.

HPS includes clk_0 and hps_0 with correctly set up SDRAM-controller and semihosting - not so much, but enough to run the software in DDR memory.

IMPORTANT: we've brougnt some corrections into the process of pin planning, so, for the first use don't regenerate SoC via Qsys - it might cause some problems in quartus compilation. We're working on this issue.

2. Software - pre-generated BSP for our (!) golden top and baremetal demo for DS-5. That means, you have a project for DS-5 with correct pre-loader and debug-scripts. All you have to do is to import the software project into your workspace, check path to executable .axf file and debug script (in Project\Manage debug configurations menu they should be "helloapp.axf" and "setup-semihosting.ds" respectively), then choose Cortex-A9_0 debug via USB Blaster II and run your application. Pre-loader and helloworld projects are both configured to use semihosting, thereby you don't need to set up any peripherials to run this example and see printf outputs in console.

IMPORTANT: now we still haven't fixed linkes scripts, so RAM size, available for application is strongly restricted, but it's only for linker - whole 1GB of DDR is accessible during debug. We're going to fix it soon.

We hope the project would be useful to start desing with SoCrates board

New files are coming

• Socrates_GT_hello_world.rar

• SoCRates.qar