Build a Quartus Project¶

Build Instructions for supplied example project within Linux VM provided by Critical Link:

1. Open Quartus
2. Click "Open Existing Project"
3. Navigate to "/home/user/projects/mityarm-5csx-dev-board/hw/fpga/mityarm_5csx_dev_board" (or the directory where your project is located)
4. Open "mityarm_5csx_dev_board.qpf"
5. Open Qsys: Tools->Qsys
6. Close the Initialization dialog when it finishes
7. Open "mityarm_5csx_dev_board.qsys"
8. Click the "Generation" tab
9. Change the "Create HDL design files for sythesis" to "VHDL"
10. Click "Generate"
11. Close the Generation dialog when it finishes
12. Go back to Quartus
13. Start the compilation: Processing->Start Compilation
14. A popup dialog will appear when the compilation is done
15. The compiled FPGA image (mityarm_5csx_dev_board.sof) will be in /home/user/projects/mityarm-5csx-dev-board/hw/fpga/mityarm_5csx_dev_board/output_files