1-1. Sign in to My Intel

● Access Intel® FPGAs and Programmable Devices to download files for installation,
Sign in to the Intel FPGA website.
● Sign-in requires creating an account on the Intel website under "My Intel".
● Click the person icon on the top right of the screen, enter your username/password, and click the [Sign in] button.
● Sign-in is complete when the person icon is marked with a ✓.

● If you do not have a My Intel account, please register a new account. Registration is free.
There are two types of accounts:
Both accounts have the ability to download development software, although the scope of services they receive differs.
○ Intel FPGA program
○ Support account
● For information on how to register an account with My Intel, please see the content below.
【reference】" How to Register for My Intel (Intel® FPGA Program)』
● In addition, users who have an old My Altera account can use the same username/password as they are.
If you cannot sign in to My Intel, please reset your password.
[FAQ] Intel: How do I sign in to My Intel (formerly My Altera)?』

1-2. Access to Download Center

● After signing in, click the person icon at the top left of the screen.
● Click Intel FPGA Design Software Download Center from the My Tools list.
● The download page "Intel® FPGA Design Software Download Center" will be displayed.

1-3. Download files

● After moving to the Download Center, click "Embedded Software" from the list on the left,
Select "SoC EDS & HWLIBs" from the displayed pull-down list to go to the Intel® SoC FPGA EDS dedicated page.

● Select the edition, version, and operating system you need for your development environment.
● Click the download button next to the file name that appears after selection.
Follow the instructions of your web browser's download manager and specify the folder where you want to save the file.
The download process will start.

3-1. Arm® DS system requirements

● Make sure that the Arm® DS system requirements are met in advance.
[Reference] "Arm® Development Studio Getting Started Guide - Hardware and host platform requirements"
● The OS environments supported by Arm® DS v2020.1 are as follows. Both require a 64-bit OS environment.
○Windows 10
○ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Workstation (or CentOS 7)
○ Ubuntu Desktop Edition 16.04 LTS
○ Ubuntu Desktop Edition 18.04 LTS
　　* Please note that Windows 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (CentOS 6.x) are not supported.

3-2. Downloading Arm® DS

● Download the Arm® DS installer archive from https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/armds/.
　　* Bugs may have been fixed, so we recommend that you install the latest version at that time.

3-3. Installing Arm® DS (for Linux OS)

① Unzip the installer archive (.tgz) and extract the installer file (example for v2020.1).

$ tar xf DS000-BN-00001-r20p1-00rel1.tgz

② Run the installer as root.

$ cd DS000-BN-00001-r20p1-00rel1/ $ sudo ./armds-2020.1.sh

(3) Display the terms of the license to the end and enter "yes" after confirming that you can accept the contents of the license.
Press Enter (you can page down to view the license terms by pressing the spacebar).

Please answer with one of: 'yes' or 'no/quit' Do you agree to the above terms and conditions? yes

④ Press Enter to run the platform requirements check.

Please answer with one of: 'yes/y' or 'no/n' Run installation platform requirement checks? [default: yes] — Running installation platform requirement checks Running dependency check [succeeded]

⑤ Leave the default installation path as is (unless you want to change it) and press Enter.

Where would you like to install to? [default: /opt/arm/developmentstudio-2020.1]

⑥ Press Enter to allow the new folder to be created:

Please answer with one of: 'yes/y' or 'no/n'
'/opt/arm/developmentstudio-2020.1' does not exist, create? [default: yes] 
— Installing to '/opt/arm/developmentstudio-2020.1' (This may take a while…)

⑦ Press Enter to allow the desktop menu to be added.

Please answer with one of: 'yes/y' or 'no/n' Install desktop menu item additions? [default: yes] — Installing menu entries

⑧ Press Enter to allow the driver to be installed.

Post install stage provides the following functions: - Installation of USB drivers for RealView ICE and DSTREAM hardware units Please answer with one of: 'yes/y' or 'no/n' Run post install setup scripts? [default: yes] — Running post install setup scripts

⑨　インストールが成功すると、次のメッセージが表示されます:

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Installation completed successfully
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To start using Arm Development Studio 2020.1 either:
- Create a suite sub-shell using /opt/arm/developmentstudio-2020.1/bin/suite_exec 
- Launch GUI tools via their desktop menu entries
The Release notes for the product can be found here: file:///opt/arm/developmentstudio-2020.1/sw/info/readme.html

3-4. Installing Arm® DS (for Windows OS)

(1) Unzip the archive and double-click the installer file (.exe) to execute it.
(2) Click [Next (N)] on the welcome screen.

(3) Confirm that you agree to the terms of the license agreement and click [Next (N)].

(4) Leave the default installation location as is (or change it if necessary) and click [Next].

⑤ Click [Install (I)] to continue the installation. Tools are installed.

⑥ Click [Next (N)] on the driver installation start screen.

⑦ Accept all default options for driver installation.
Click [Finish] when the driver installation is complete.

⑧ Installation is complete. Click [Finish].

6-1. Installing Linaro Baremetal Toolchain (for Linux OS)

(1) Start Embedded Command Shell.
○ For ver.20.1 Pro:

$ ~/intelFPGA_pro/20.1/embedded/embedded_command_shell.sh

○ For ver.20.1 Std:

$ ~/intelFPGA/20.1/embedded/embedded_command_shell.sh

② Change the current folder to linaro and run the install script.
* The install_linaro.sh script file is only intended for the Linaro bare-metal toolchain for ARMv7 (ARMv8 is
not supported).

$ cd $SOCEDS_DEST_ROOT/host_tools/linaro/
$ ./install_linaro.sh

③ After successful completion, the following will be installed in the $SOCEDS_DEST_ROOT/host_tools/linaro/ folder.
○ gcc - the GCC compiler
○ newlib—Newlib library

6-2. Installing Linaro Baremetal Toolchain (for Windows OS)

① Run C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat as administrator.

② The Msys console opens.

③　社内ネットワークなどでプロキシがある場合、Msys コンソールから次のようなプロキシの設定が必要です。

$ export http_proxy="http://your.proxy.address:proxy.port"
$ export https_proxy="https://your.proxy.address:proxy.port"

* In the proxy settings above, your.proxy.address means the proxy address and proxy.port means the proxy port number.

④ Go to the linaro folder in the Msys console.
○ For ver.20.1 Pro:

$ cd c:/intelFPGA_pro/20.1/embedded/host_tools/linaro

○ For ver.20.1 Std:

$ cd c:/intelFPGA/20.1/embedded/host_tools/linaro

⑤ Run the installer.
* The install_linaro.sh script file is only intended for the Linaro bare-metal toolchain for ARMv7 (ARMv8 is
not supported).

$ ./install_linaro.sh

⑥ The Linaro toolchain is downloaded, the newlib library is downloaded and compiled.
Once complete, the following will be installed in your linaro folder:
○ gcc - the GNU compiler
○ newlib—Newlib library

7-1. Starting Arm® DS and setting the license file

● To point the Linaro Linux toolchain path to Arm® DS, Arm® DS must be started.
● In addition, in order to use Arm® DS, it is necessary to set the license in advance.
● For details, see How to license Arm® Development Studio for Intel® SoC FPGA Edition, see the following chapters.
○ 5. Start Arm® DS Intel® SoC FPGA Edition
○ 6. License file settings

7-2. Configuring the Linaro Linux Toolchain

① Select "Preferences" from the "Window" menu of Arm® DS.

② From the Preferences window, enter too in the search window and select "Toolchains". Click the [Add…] button.

③ Click “Download GCC toolchain”.

④ When the GNU Toolchain page of Arm Developer is displayed, click "GNU toolchain for A-profile processors".

⑤ Click Downloads.

⑥ Click the desired toolchain to download it.

⑦ When the download is complete, unzip it (you can unzip it with the following command from Embedded Command Shell).
In this example, we downloaded and unzipped gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz.

$ tar –Jxvf gcc-arm-10.2-2020.11-mingw-w64-i686-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz

(8) Click [Browse].

(9) Specify the bin folder of the unzipped toolchain and click [Select Folder].

(10) Click [Next >].

(11) When the toolchain is detected, click [Finish].

(12) Confirm that the toolchain has been added, and click [Apply and Close].

(13) Click [Restart] to restart Arm® DS.

⑭ After Arm® DS restarts, open the Makefile of the Linux project (Altera-SoCFPGA-HelloWorld-Linux-GNU in this example),
Define CROSS_COMPILE to arm-none-linux-gnueabihf- (original definition commented out).

⑮ Right-click the Linux project and select "Properties".

⑯ Select "C/C++ Build" ⇒ "Tool Chain Editor", select the tool chain you want to use, and click [Apply and Close].

⑰ Run "Build Project" on the Linux project to make sure it can be built.

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