HPS_NIOSVg_DoC_Safety_dual_axis

Drive-On-Chip with Functional Safety Design Example based on NIOSV/g with Hard Processor System - Hardware Repository (HW)

Overview

This repository contains the necessary files and collateral to build and create a Quartus Prime Project variant of the Drive-On-Chip (DoC) with Functional Safety with an HPS instance for speed monitoring.

The products of this repository is a SOF file.

Note: To produce the JIC/RBF pair files known as "Flash image for HPS First configuration bitstream, phase 1" and "HPS First configuration bitstream, phase 2" respectively; a u-boot-spl-dtb.hex file is needed which is a product of the "YOCTO" component compilation.

Software Requirements

The Modular Design Toolkit (MDT) requires the following software and versions (in Linux):

• Altera® Quartus® Prime Pro version (26.1), including open-source tools to compile software targeting NiosV soft-processors.
• Device Support.
• FPGA NiosV/g Open-Source Tools 26.1 (installed with Quartus® Prime).

Optional

• DSP Builder for Altera® FPGAs Pro Edition v26.1.

Hardware Requirements

To operate this variant on hardware, ensure you have the suitable board or development kit that is compatible with your chosen board_subsystem. Additionally, you may need relevant accessories such as daughter cards and other components.

Creating and compiling the hardware

Create this hardware design using the Modular Design Toolkit (MDT)

Follow the next steps to create the Quartus® and Platform Designer Project for Agilex™ 5 FPGA E-Series 065B Modular Development Kit You can select any other available XML targeting other boards from the HPS_NIOSVg_DoC_Safety_dual_axis directory.

• Create your workspace and clone the repository using --recurse-submodules:

cd <workspace>
git clone -b <QUARTUS_REL_TAG> --recurse-submodules https://github.com/altera-fpga/agilex-ed-drive-on-chip.git doc-variants

• Navigate to doc-variants directory and create your project in a location of your choice \<project\>

cd doc-variants
quartus_sh -t ./modular_design_toolkit/scripts/create/create_shell.tcl \
   -xml_path ./HPS_NIOSVg_DoC_Safety_dual_axis/AGX_5E_Modular_Devkit_HPS_NIOSVg_DoC_safe_dual_axis.xml \
   -proj_path <project> -o

This will create your Quartus® Prime and Platform Designer Project in <project>. The folder structure is consistent with the "Modular Design Toolkit" methodology.

Build this hardware design using the Modular Design Toolkit (MDT)

• Using the command line and the Modular Design Toolkit build script and the project created in the previous step, build the Quartus® project:

cd <project>/scripts
quartus_sh -t ./build_shell.tcl -hw_compile -sw_compile

The FPGA programming file is located in \<project\>/quartus/output_files/top.sof. Note the -sw_compile generates the corresponding .elf and .hex files for any embedded NiosV/g processor in the cpu_subsystem and is located in \<project\>/software/dniosv_subsystem

Note: You must generate the RBF/JIC pair to boot and program this design example into a board using the output top.sof and a u-boot-spl-dtb.hex from the YOCTO and u-boot compilation process