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| Altera EPM3032 CPLD Guide Tour Please. |
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| Balaur:
Hello, As Janne said, please try to verify if/how Quartus is able to interact with the programmer. You can use the full Quartus suite or just the stand-alone programmer. Then, did you look in the CD provided with the evaluation board? Maybe they provided some kind of a programming bit file that it's able to exercise the board features (leds, display, motors, sensors). This is a first sanity check that will help you to check the board functionalities. Most likely, this file could be a Tabular Text File (.ttf), a Raw Binary Format (.rbf), a JAM STAPL file (.jam or .jbc) or a hex file (.hexout). The next step could be to generate your own configuration file containing the design of your choice. To do this, there is no easy way; you simply need to be familiar with all this FPGA stuff. That comes after some kind of microelectronic design course. You'll need to invest time in this. As an indication, please search on the CD an example design. If a programming file is provided, you will also have the source files (+ Quartus project or whatever) that could be used to re-generate the programming file. I would do that to familiarize with the Quartus flow as a first step. Then, the second step is to prepare a template/empty design project that is configured to work with your device and board; i.e. the device pins are correctly assigned to the board schematic signals, there is a top level module with the required I/Os to the board and with some luck, the signals are initialized to safe values. Then, I will use that template to set a signal to "1" or whatever in order to light up a led. Cheers, Dan |
| Mechatrommer:
--- Quote from: jahonen on November 30, 2011, 03:04:56 pm ---choosing from Quartus programmer mode JTAG, and with the evaluation board powered up, click on scan chain button, it should find the device in question if everything works ok. --- End quote --- exactly what i need. thanks Janne. now looking for hex file :P --- Quote from: Balaur on November 30, 2011, 04:20:50 pm ---Then, did you look in the CD provided with the evaluation board? --- End quote --- no cd no nothing. just the board and the blaster i was buying from China for $30 or something. luckily there's JTAG mark on the board so i know where to connect right away. from Janne's advice, i managed to get it detected, so far (as in the picture) thanks for the link on standalone programmer. i'll look into that. --- Quote from: Balaur on November 30, 2011, 04:20:50 pm ---The next step could be to generate your own configuration file containing the design of your choice... and the following statements --- End quote --- now thats deep! i'll ask again next time ;) thanks anyway for the advice Dan i appreciate it. |
| jahonen:
Is there at least a board schematic available? Otherwise, it will be quite difficult to find out the pin mapping. Regards, Janne |
| Mechatrommer:
i dont think decoding the board will be much of a trouble. the biggest challenge is finding time meditating on the datasheet and the IDE. i dont even think its entitled to be called a development board. but from my pic dev kit experience, i dont think i'm going to need an fpga dev board either :P for now, i think. |
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