How to reset a board

You have a board’s page open, and the board or its host no longer answers. You want it to start again. A reset cuts the host’s power and restores it, so the host and the board start from scratch.

What you need

  • The board’s page on welland.fpgas.online, ps1.fpgas.online or tinytapeout.fpgas.online.

A reset ends the session of anyone else using the board. Everything written on the host is gone after it, uploads included.

Steps

  1. On welland or ps1, press Reset, next to “Turn it off and on again”.

  2. On tinytapeout.fpgas.online, press Power-cycle board instead, and confirm.

  3. Wait about two minutes for the host to come back.

Check

On welland, the status box shows the host’s boot messages, and the terminal connects again by itself. On ps1, press reconnect and reset ssh: the terminal shows a prompt. On tinytapeout.fpgas.online, the status log shows power-cycle: done, and the status pill shows the board again.

If it fails

What you see

Likely cause

Fix

reset failed (429), or power-cycle refused (HTTP 429)

the board was power-cycled a moment ago

wait, then press it again

power-cycle refused, with another reason

the reason it gives

press it again later; if it repeats, the site cannot cycle this board

On ps1, nothing at all after Reset, and no boot messages

ps1’s page shows the answer only in the browser’s console

wait two minutes, then press reconnect and reset ssh

An upload says the host “did not answer, so nothing was uploaded”

the host is still starting

wait a little longer, then upload again

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