Intel® Stratix® 10 GX FPGA Development Kit User Guide

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Date 4/02/2020
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3.1. Applying Power to the Development Board

This development kit is designed to operate in two modes:
  1. As a PCIe* add-in card

    When operating the card as a PCIe* system, insert the card into an available PCIe* slot and connect a 2x4 and 2x3 pin PCIe* power cable from the system to power connectors at J26 and J27 of the board respectively.

    Note: When operating as a PCIe* add-in card, the board does not power on unless power is supplied to J26 and J27.
  2. In bench-top mode

    In Bench-top mode, you must supply the board with provided power 240W power supply connected to the power connector J27. The following describes the operation in bench-top mode.

This development board ships with its switches preconfigured to support the design examples in the kit.

If you suspect that your board may not be correctly configured with the default settings, follow the instructions in the Default Switch and Jumper Settings section of this chapter.

  1. The development board ships with design examples stored in the flash memory device. To load the design stored in the factory portion of the flash memory, verify SW3.3 is set to ON. This is the default setting.
  2. Connect the supplied power supply to an outlet and the DC Power Jack (J27) on the FPGA board.
    Note: Use only the supplied power supply. Power regulation circuits on the board can be damaged by power supplies with greater voltage.
  3. Set the power switch (SW7) to the ON position.

When the board powers up, the parallel flash loader (PFL) on the MAX® V reads a design from flash memory and configures the FPGA. When the configuration is complete, green LEDs illuminate signaling the device configured successfully. If the configuration fails, the red LED illuminates.