Chapter 11: Development Environment Setup

Abstract

This chapter covers how a student’s development environment should be set up for the DE10-Nano board. It covers setting up PuTTY to communicate with Linux on the DE10-Nano. It then covers setting up a Ubuntu Virtual Machine using VirtualBox. The Ubuntu VM is then set up to implement the Developer’s Boot Mode where the DE10-Nano board boots from TFTP and NFS servers in the Ubuntu VM. The chapter covers installing and setting up the NFS and TFTP servers and the associated network setup. The chapter then covers reimaging the microSD card for the DE10-Nano board so that it boots from the Developer’s image, which requires the appropriate switch settings on the DE10-Nano board. The associated U-boot settings are covered so that the DE10-Nano board boots with the appropriate IP addresses and bootscript file. The chapter ends with setting up the Audio Mini passthrough example and cross compiling a hello world example to test that the development environment is working.