Custom Instrument Tutorial - Targeting the Design to the FPGA Device

Now we are finished with the capture phase of our design, we need to specify which physical FPGA device we want to use – the target for our design and the end medium into which the design will ultimately be programmed and run. For this tutorial, we will target an FPGA device located on a 3-connector daughter board that is plugged into the Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01.

The easiest way to configure the project is to use Altium Designer's auto-configuration feature This will configure the project based on the exact hardware present in your Desktop NanoBoard system. Let's go ahead and configure our FPGA project.

1. Ensure the 3-connector daughter board carrying the FPGA device to which the design will be targeted is plugged into the NB2DSK01 motherboard.
    
2. Our simple custom instrument design does not use any resources resident on plug-in peripheral boards. These boards can be left attached to the motherboard, or removed, as desired.
    
3. Ensure your Desktop NanoBoard is connected to the PC via USB (or parallel) connection and is powered-on.
    
4. Run the auto-configuration process on the project (Custom_Instrument_Design.PrjFpg).
    
   
   Figure 1. Auto-configure direct from the Devices view.  
5. When configuration is complete, save all source files and the parent project.

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