Reply To: OSSC Pro firmware v0.80

[marqs]

There are 2 ways to build the firmware without Intel VIP license (will add this info also on README):

1. Building it as instructed, in which case the bitstream will be generated for evaluation mode. It can be then programmed with USB Blaster and it is fully operational as long as the programmer is connected.

2. Building the image without VIP support. In this case VIP IP blocks need to be disabled on Quartus Platform Designer, and “`define VIP” commented out from rtl/ossc_pro.v and “#define VIP” from software/sys_controller/config/sysconfig.h.

It would be relatively easy to add UART on Platform Designer and redirect stdout to it instead of JTAG_UART, but I’d still highly recommend getting USB Blaster (Terasic one) for any development activities. There’s also #ossc-dev channel on Classic Gaming on Discord for in-depth development discussion.