Xilinx FPGA Development Spartan-3E XC3S500E-PQG208 Board 4.3" TFT LCD 4 Nios

[yannoo95170]

Hi,

I just begin with FPGAs and have recepted this afternoon my first FPGA dev board

The package I have recepted have the dev board (labeled RCXQ208_V5), USB/serial wires , the AC/DC transformer, one remote controler and one cd-rom

**BUT ANY INSTRUCTION PAPER**
(only two japans (or chineses) visit cards when I can see "Altera, Xilink, FPGA", somes email adfress or telephon numbers and a lot of trademarks)

After the speed boot of this board, I have a running counter 023.000xx on segments, one scrolling of 6 leds, a 4x4 colored checkerboard on the onboard screen and somes red chinese/japanese characters at the external VGA output
(for me, this will say that the initial/primary hardware boot seem work, this is after in the boot that this don't work "such as I have thinked" )

When I push the buttons left/right/top/right/ok/menu this emit only a song but nothing other :sad:
(and any reaction when I push a button on the remote)

I have plugged a VGA monitor and a keyboard on the FPGA board but I only see something like a big red I character at the middle, a lot of others reds chineses/japanes/"rectanguloids" symbols in right and one or two parts of red symbols in the left, but no reaction when I hit alls keys on the PS/2 keyboard :evil:

How can I access to something like a BIOS menu on the onboard 4.3'' LCD screen ?
(I cannot make anything other that to hear a song when I push left/right/top/bottom/ok/menu buttons for this instant ... :roll: )
[the counter can be reseted using interRuptors and POWER and RESET buttons are working, this is already this :smile: ]

Or can I really have (as I unfortunately fear) an hardware problem on this FPGA board ?

 

[yannoo95170]

Resolved, I have found documentation of the Net and everything is normal

The bundle that I have recept contain the FPGA board, one USB to serial cable and one CD **but** no paper documentation and only programs for the Windows platerform...

But now than I have found the "REDCORE FPGA BOARD" documentation of this board at https://shop57125352.taobao.com and found how to handling the communication between my Linux box and the FPGA board using Kermit, I'm very happy with this purchase

 

[yannoo95170]

In fact, it's far to be resolved because I haven't a fonctionnal FPGA devel environment on my linux box for the instant

I just know now that my FPGA board work fine, have succefully recept the "hello, world" message to my linux box but this is all
(I can compil/emulate .vl code on my linux box but I have not alls necessaries tools on my linux box for to compile/transfer this to my SPARTAN FPGA board and can to see the result on the FPGA's on-board screen because all I have is only Window drivers/executables ...)