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Marsilius Boa

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:46:33 PM8/3/24
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Apollo Agilex SOM takes advantage of the latest Intel Agilex 7 SoC FPGA with 1400K logic elements to obtain performance and power breakthrough (with up to 40% lower power than Stratix 10 series). Combining high-end hardware interfaces such as high-capacity and high-bandwidth DDR4 SO-DIMM Sockets (up to 32GB DDR4), on-board QSFP28 connector, on-board USB-Blaster II, and FMC/FMC+ connectors for I/O expansion, the board delivers more than 2X the performance of previous generation development kits.

Terasic is the leading developer and provider for FPGA-based hardware & complex system solution. With twenty years of experience in developing high-end solutions for the industrial and FPGA system markets.

Includes both the modular board containing the Agilex 5 FPGA and limited connector options, and a carrier board with more connector options that is also compatible with other dev kits beyond the Agilex 5 FPGA E-Series.

The E-Series 065B dev kits are the perfect way to explore the Agilex 5 FPGA. The two versions, Premium and Modular both feature the same A5ED065BB32AE6SR0 FPGA, but accommodate different use cases with their form factors and connector options.

The development kit delivers the perfect balance of power efficiency and performance required for a variety of markets from embedded and edge to communications, and many more. It is powered by the Agilex 5 FPGA and SoC. The development kit comes in a tabletop form factor packed with a robust set of features and connectors interfacing with extensive transceivers, DDR4 memory, PCI Express 4.0 x4 connectivity through our FMC+ connector, Nios Flash memory and 2Gb QSPI Flash memory. It includes a Hard Processor System (HPS) expansion board. All these features are made available to ensure you have everything you need to get started with your designs.

I've got multiple bit stream files I'd like to use for configuration of our agilex FPGA (AGFB014R24A2E3VR0). While the UBII and Power Max 10 chips do seam to work (the board test system shows power and clock stats) the programming (both our bitstream and the intel example bitstreams) always fails at 13% (using both the quartus programmer and the one provided by the BTS). Searching the exact error message (obtained by right click -> copy on the log message) wasn't of any help. We're using Quartus Pro 20.4 on Ubuntu 20 and Windows 10 (neither worked, both with the same issue).

thanks a lot for your help! We've fixed this issue now. One thing we'd like to share, for a potential future reader, is that in addition to the above mentioned article one needs to completely erase the flash prior to configuring. Our working solutions looks like the following:

It's also required to leave the JTAG chain in the default configuration while erasing the flash. Last but not least: If step 8 fails retry a couple of times until it stops failing (we usually don't need more than 3 tries). It also seams to be more reliable (programming fails less often) at 24MHz than 6MHz, which the programmer defaults to anyway.

Warning(19729): Current CMF data structure hash (0x15CD440C) is older version than latest CMF data structure but still allowable.
This might be transition period. You should update your CMF to latest version with hash 0x8AC9CBBA [ACDS 20.4 Release]

It should have something to do with Quartus compatibility issue from 19.x to 20.4, which means you probably fail to configure FPGA SOF 20.x again if FPGA has been configured with 19.x image right after power cycle. For devkit, it usually has an image in ASx4 flash for power-on boot-up, so if the AS programming file JIC file generated by 19.x, then it probably runs into FPGA 20.x SOF file configuration issue later on after power cycle. So there are two options to go, one is to erase ASx4 flash with Programmer, the other one is to set MSEL to JTAG only mode. BTW, please do use 19.x Programmer to configure 19.x SOF file, same to 20.x SOF file, otherwise, it may run into configuration issue as well.

from the BTS we've tried bts_config.sof and qsfpdd_xcvr_nrz_25gbps.sof as well as the GPIO example. The Bitstream we've provided above (Have a look inside Hello_World.tar.xz), initializes the I/O and toggles the GPIO and QSFP leds at 1Hz. Besides writing a bitstream generated by the golden top example, I'm out of Ideas what could be more simple.

We're using the AGFB014R24A2E3VR0 part as stated on the sticker on our dev kit. Since our last post we downgraded to Quartus 19.1 and get a different error since then (Error(18952): Error status: Synchronization failed). I've attached a recent screenshot as requested.

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Ray comes to Agilex with deep management experience in the fragrance and flavors industry. He has successfully led profitable growth both in U.S. and international businesses throughout his career, and has considerable managerial experience at some of the largest global players in the industry.

Ray spent the majority of his career at Dragoco, where he held positions of increasing responsibility over his 23 years with the company. Ray was ultimately promoted to President and CEO of Dragoco North America, where he had corporate responsibility for fragrance and flavors in U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central America. Ray also had direct P&L responsibility for the North America Flavor Division, along with global responsibility for the Beverage Flavors category.

Following the merger of Dragoco and Haarmann & Reimer in 2002, Ray became President of the North America Flavor Division for the newly created Symrise, the 4th largest global flavor and fragrance company. In this role at Smyrise, Ray led the North American growth strategy for the #3 global division in the flavors industry. Additionally, Ray successfully managed the integration of two large sales, marketing and research & development organizations in the United States and Mexico.

Most recently, Ray served at A.M. Todd Group, a privately-held, global company recognized as the leader in the cultivation, processing and sale of natural mint oil for the Oral Care, Gum and Confection industries. Ray was ultimately promoted to President and CEO of the company, becoming the first non-family CEO in the 141 year history of A.M. Todd, and was also responsible for a portfolio of companies and investments in addition to the core mint business.

Ray served on the Board of Governors for the Flavor & Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) for twelve years, including one year as President. Additionally, Ray served on the Board of Governors for the International Organization of the Flavor Industry (IOFI) for multiple terms.

About Agilex Flavors & Fragrances
Headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, Agilex is the leading provider of fragrance compounds and delivery systems in the middle market. The Company possesses leading creative and technical capabilities for the customers it serves, which are primarily manufacturers of air care, personal care, industrial and institutional and household products throughout the United States. Additional information about Agilex is available at www.agilexfandf.com.

Direct RF components and modules directly digitize radio frequency signals at the antenna signal frequency, eliminating the analog signal down conversion stages required by legacy hardware. This approach requires extremely fast converters, high bandwidth digital data links, and powerful real-time digital signal processing. The results are reductions size, weight, power, cost, and latency that can benefit a variety of radar, communications, electronic warfare, SIGINT, and industrial applications. Mercury offers industry-leading Direct RF products including system-in-package and multi-chip modules and 3U VPX processing boards.

The playing card-sized DRF2580 SOM brings new capability to the Mercury Processing Platform, giving customers the ability to design aerospace and defense systems that digitize a large swath of the RF spectrum at the edge, enhancing security and accelerating decision-making in the field. The DRF2580 is a four-channel SOM based on the Intel Agilex 9 SoC FPGA AGRW014 that converts between analog and digital signals at 64 Gigasamples per second. It is available in standard form factors and supported by a best-in-class carrier design kit that allows users to focus on application-specific carrier development, with much of the most challenging aspects of embedded circuit design already solved by the SOM.

The MitySBC-A5E is a single board computer featuring an Intel / Altera Agilex 5E SoC (System on a Chip) and includes up to 656KLE FPGA fabric, dual core Cortex-A55 + dual core Cortex-A76, on-board power supplies, and memory subsystems. The Agilex 5 delivers 2.5x the performance at 50% less power consumption versus the Cyclone V SoC.

Our customers benefit from engineering and applications support for the life of their product. This includes free, lifetime access to our technical support site, as well as access to application engineering resources and other services.

The following table provides ordering information for the MitySBC-A5E Development Kit, which includes everything needed to start development (SBC with power supply, necessary cables, fully loaded SD card). For shipping status, availability, and lead time, contact Critical Link at in...@criticallink.com.

Macnica (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Kazumasa Hara, hereinafter referred to as "Macnica") and Kondo Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Settsu City, Osaka, President: Kikuo Kondo, hereinafter referred to as "Kondo Electronic Industries") have announced that they have entered into a Macnica technology brand called "Mpression" (Mpression) products. We are pleased to announce today that we have developed Sulfur.

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