Downloading the Blinky example

The best way to test that everything is working ok with a board is to download a blinky hello world example, synthesize it and upload it into your board. These are the steps:

1. Install the latest example apio package

This is the command for forcing the installation of the latest version:

apio install -f examples

You can check all the installed packaged with this command:

apio install -l

2. Listing all the available examples

List all the available examples and try to find the blinky for the board you want to test

apio examples -l

You will have to scroll up to see all the examples

Each example has an identifier in blue, consisting of of two parts separated by the '/' symbol. The first is the board name and the second is the example name. For this demo we will use the example Alhambra-II/Blinky

3. Getting the example

Execute the command apio example -d followed by the example identifier (previous step)

apio examples -d Alhambra-II/Blinky

It will create a new folder with the identifier as a name. In this demo it has created the folder Alhambra-II and inside it a new folder called Blinky

4. Uploading the example to the board

Connect the board to the computer, enter into the example folder (in this demo enter into Alhambra-II/Blinky folder) and execute the apio upload command