Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit User Guide

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Date 2/21/2024
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6. Board Test System

This chapter explains how you can use the Board Test System GUI to test board components, modify functional parameters, observe performance, and measure power usage.

Along with the Board Test System, the development kit includes related design examples. These designs are provided to test the major board features. Each design provides data for one or more tabs in the application. While using the Board Test System, you must reconfigure the FPGA several times with test designs specific to the functionality you are testing.

The Board Test System is also useful as a reference for designing systems.

The following figure shows the GUI and initial System Info tab for a board in the factory configuration.

Figure 4. Board Test System GUI

Highlights appear in the board picture around the corresponding components.

The Board Test System and Power Monitor share the JTAG bus with other applications like the Nios® II debugger and the Signal Tap II Embedded Logic Analyzer. As the Intel® Quartus® Prime programmer uses most of the bandwidth of the JTAG bus, other applications using the JTAG bus might time out. You must ensure to close the other applications before attempting to reconfigure the FPGA using the Intel® Quartus® Prime Programmer.