CSCE 430/830 A Tutorial of Project Tools

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CSCE 430/830 A Tutorial of Project Tools

• By Dongyuan Zhan
• dzhan_at_cse.unl.edu
• Feb. 4, 2010

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Outlines

• Get started with Altera DE-I FPGA Board
• Get started with Quartus-II Design Software

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Getting Started with Altera DE-2
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Getting Started with Altera DE-2 1

• EP2C35F672C6 Cyclone II FGPA chip
• Configurable connection between the FPGA chip and
  other components
• Toggle/push buttons, LCD, LEDs, and 7-Segment
  DIPs.
• SRAM, SDRAM, and Flash Memory
• RS-232, PS/2, VGA, USB
• The expansion headers can be used to connect
  other user-designed boards to the DE2 board

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Getting Started with Altera DE-2

• System Requirements (on you computer)
• Quartus-II web edition software
• For logic design, design compilation, timing
  simulation, FPGA programming
• V9.0 can be downloaded at 2
• USB Blaster driver
• enable Quartus-II to communicate with DE-2
• Installation instructions can be found at 1
• Special Notice
• I suggest you use Quartus-II 9.0 edition and
  windows XP for better compatibility with DE-2

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Getting Started with Altera DE-2

• Relate DE-2 to the Course Project
• For the course project, you need burn your FPGA
  configuration (for your pipelined processor
  design) and benchmark program into the Flash
  memory (like a hard drive), load the program into
  and store the intermediate data in SDRAM (like
  the main memory), and show the results on the LCD.

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Design Steps using Quartus-II 4, 5

• Create a design project
• Select File New Project Wizard, and Specify
  Family to be Cyclone-II and Device Settings
  to be EP2C35F672C6
• Design a component
• In File New Device Design Files, select
  either Block Diagram/Schematic File or HDL
  File
• Assign Pins
• Select Assignments Pins
• Synthesize a design
• Select Processing Start Compilation
• Simulating the Circuit
• Select File New Other Files Vector
  Waveform File
• Select Processing Start Simulation

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Design Steps using Quartus-II

• Program the FPGA
• Connect DE-2 with the computer via a USB blaster
  cable and power it on
• Select Tools Programmer

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Design Steps using Quartus-II
Design Flow Chart
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References

• 1 Getting Started with Altera DE-2
• ftp//ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Tutorials/DE2/Digital
  _Logic/tut_initialDE2.pdf
• 2 DE-2 User Manual
• ftp//ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Webdocs/DE2_UserManua
  l.pdf
• 3 Quartus-II v9.0
• http//adsl.unl.edu/docs/90sp2_quartus_free.exe
• 4 Quartus II Reference
• http//www.altera.com/literature/hb/qts/qts_qii53
  017.pdf
• 5 Quartus II Introduction Using Schematic
  Design
• ftp//ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Tutorials/DE2/Digital
  _Logic/tut_quartus_intro_schem.pdf