Transcript Downloading to Altera Nios Development Kit

Downloading to Altera Nios
Development Kit
CSCE 488
Witawas Srisa-an
Documents Needed
• I’m providing you with a copy of “Nios
Development Board: Reference Manual,
Stratix Edition”.
– contain all the basic I/O pins for Stratix device
– overview of programming configurable device
with Quartus
– overview of the default configuration that
comes with the kit.
Before We Start…
• Make sure you have the following issues
resolved
– install Quartus with appropriate license (either
web or seat license)
– have a working byteblaster MV or byteblaster
II
– install byteblaster driver
• http://www.altera.com/support/software/drivers/dri-bb-xp.html
Custom Design in Nios Dev. Kit
• In this exercise, we will use schematic
capturing tool to build an output driver for
the board
– test push buttons
– test LED displays
– test 7 segment displays
Our Simple Driver
Compile the Design
• Just use compiler tool
to compile the design
• Once successful,
perform the Pin
Assignment
• Check the name of
each I/O pin from the
manual. For example,
LED D0 is
corresponding to pin
H27 (page 27)
Pin Assignment
Pin Assignment (cont.)
• assign LED D0 – D3 for out1-out4
• assign sw3 for sw input and D7 for out5
• assign the first decimal place for clk_out
and sw0 for reset input
• Look at figure 21 on page 35 and select
the assignment for clk input
• Recompile your design. Once successful,
go to tool menu and select programmer
Programmer
must be the same
as your project
Must be checked
Programmer (cont.)
• If your byteblaster
driver is installed
correctly, you should
see download
progress bar moving.
• Once complete, your
design is downloaded
to the board.
PROBLEM!
• I see my design download to the board but
I don’t see the LEDs light up
– none of the push buttons are working
– the decimal point on the 7-segment display is
not flashing
The configuration is wrong
• go to assignments->devices->device & pin
options.
• Make sure you have selected “Reserve all
unused pins” as “inputs, tri-stated”
Select Unused Pins
Finishing Up
• Recompile your design
• Try programmer again, this time it should
work
More about Nios Development Kit
• Configuration controller device (Max 7000)
– by default read data from the flash memory
– user can configure the device directly from
download cable
0
400000
600000
700000
Web pages
User configuration Data
Safe Configuration Data
More about Nios
700000
FPGA Configuration Data
7A0000
Web Server Software
7F0000
Network Setting
Restoring Factory Setting
• Most likely, your board does not have the
factory setting
– refer to Appendix B for more information
NOTICE! You must install SOPC builder to be
able to restore factory setting