Build your own open-source FPGA Loader
Workshop: Solder
Learn how to turn the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board into an open-source FPGA loader.
In this workshop, we will take the same hardware as last year and teach it some new tricks. We will utilize new features in openFPGALoader to load a soft RISC-V core into the MAX10 and write the firmware image directly into User Flash Memory (UFM). Then you can modify the code and update it with openFPGALoader. If you still have your hardware from last year, you are welcome to participate without registering, space permitting.
Each workshop participant will be provided a kit that includes:
- MAX10 10M08E144 evaluation board
- Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 board
- USB Blaster adapter PCB and loose connectors
- Programming cables
In the workshop we will:
- Assemble the USB Blaster adapter to the Pico board
- Connect the Pico-Dirty-Blaster to the MAX10 10M08E144 evaluation board
- Load soft RISC-V processor into MAX10 with openFPGALoader
- Load firmware into user flash memory with openFPGALoader
- Modify code and reload UFM
The adapter PCBs use large-pitch, through-hole connectors easy for beginners with little or no soldering experience.
Participants should bring their own computer, preferably one with Linux or some Unix environment, to program the adapter.
Documentation on GitHub.
Made possible with generous support from Altera.
