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[Solved] Broken Mimas V2?

Discussion in 'FPGA Boards' started by Martyn Holliday, Mar 26, 2015.

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    After some initial success with simple examples with push buttons and LEDs I wanted to move on to VGA.
    My first attempt caused the monitor to display an "out of frequency range" message. Since then NOTHING works. A trivial Push button & LED example appears to download OK, but does not function.

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    //Simple_LED file

    `timescale 1ns / 1ps

    module Simple_LED(A, B);
    input wire A;
    output wire B;
    assign B = !A;
    endmodule
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    # User Constraint File for NOT gate implementation on Mimas V2

    # Onboard LEDs
    NET "B" LOC = T18;

    # Push Button Switches.
    # Internal pull-ups need to be enabled since
    # there is no pull-up resistor available on board
    NET "A" PULLUP;

    NET "A" LOC = M16;
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    //Configuration tool report

    Configuration download started...
    Erasing flash sectors
    Programming flash
    Verifying configuration...
    Configuration succcessful...
    Rebooting FPGA...
    Done...
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    The Power LED is on and there is power at various places on the board.

    I cannot see any obvious damage and there seems not to be a fuse anywhere.
    Have I bricked my Mimas V2?
     
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    Hello Martyn, The fact that the board is powering up and you are able to download your program successfully confirms that at least the configuration circuit is working fine. But the LED that you have mentioned (it is not power rather FPGA configuration indicator) stays on means the FPGA is not getting configured properly. This LED is supposed to turn on for a second or two after power up and should turn off. The most common reason for this happening is due to incorrect start up clock settings. To confirm/rule out if start up clock is the culprit, can you please download the sample bin file (available on product page under downloads section) and flash it to the board. If everything goes well, the LEDs on the board should start to blink.

    If the sample program didn't work, I will share further directions as to how to debug the issue.

    Thanks,
    Tom
     
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    Hello Tom,

    thanks for the quick response. I have loaded the example file into my Mimas...
    and it all works as expected. A relief that I had not damaged the board so soon.

    My actual problem turned out to be with the project configuration.
    After downloading and trying various examples, copying files etc I had propagated an
    error into all the following projects.

    In project Design Properties I had selected an incorrect device.
    Among other things this resulted in the downloaded bin file to be the wrong size.
    So no wonder it did not work.

    Thanks again
    Martyn
     
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    Thanks Martin for the update. Happy to hear that the board is working fine.

    Tom
     
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