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I just bought a new Cyclone V board from Terasic ( Atlas-SoC ) and planned to build a bare metal application. At first, I used the GSRD provided by Terasic. The example project is from version 14.0 and my 17.1 Quartus asked me to launch an update to those 14.0 IP, but I saw that they already compile everything and I had a handoff file folder. All I needed to do was just make a preloader and uboot. Then I followed these steps (from rocketboard and many places else):

1. Generate .rbf file.
2. I made a preloader using the bsp-editor tool from EDS-SoC.
3. Compile successfully the preloader and obtain preloader-mkpimage.bin.
4. Generate uboot and also uboot script file.
5. Load preloader into SD card using alt-boot-disk-util.
6. Copy all the rbf file, uboot and uboot script to an SD card. At this moment I did not make any application because I wanted to check if the preloader loaded or not.
7. Plug SD card into the board and then power up 8. In Putty, I saw the U-boot spl and Uboot worked fine.

With the first success, I tried to make my own HPS-FPGA design. I based on HPS configuration to make my own HPS ( initialize I2C, UART, no sdram, etc. ). For the FPGA part, I put some LEDs PIO, JTAG UART, System ID peripheral, etc.

After finish my Platform designer ( Qsys), I made a VHDL top file and connect all the nodes ( just like GSRD design). At this point, I did not add any IP such as HPS reset, debounce, etc. because I just wanted to see if the preloader worked or not.

Then I followed exactly those steps as I did with GSRD design, however this time on Putty I received nothing. U-Boot SPL did not even appear. Feeling weird, I came back to GSRD to check. I copied the whole folder of GSRD design and made it my own new project. Then I launched an update for those IP and compiled the whole thing again. After that, preloader and uboot were made in the same steps and the result amazed me: On Putty terminal, I only had this single line