CSCE 430/830
A Tutorial of Project Tools
By Dongyuan Zhan
dzhan@cse.unl.edu
Feb. 4, 2010
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 userdesigned 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 CycloneII 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”
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_UserManual.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_qii53017.pdf
[5] Quartus II Introduction Using Schematic Design
ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Tutorials/DE2/Digital_Logic/tut_quartus_i
ntro_schem.pdf
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