Archive for the ‘ fpga ’ Category

Using ModelSim with Quartus II and the DE0-Nano

This is a tutorial to walk you through how to use Quartus II and ModelSim software together to create and analyze a simple design (an inverter), then we’ll compare the RTL and Gate-Level simulations with the results on a DE0-Nano. This tutorial assumes you have some basic experience working with Quartus II. Going through the [ READ MORE ]

Welcome the DE0-Nano

My posting this summer, due to outside obligations, has been ridiculously sparse. (Literally ‘outside obligations’: I’ve been landscaping my yard all summer). I’m starting to have a little more idle time now that the summer is winding down, and now my motivation has been completely revitalized by this little guy: The DE0-Nano development board from [ READ MORE ]

Programming an Altera Cyclone II FPGA with a FT232RL – Python Code

This is the final post in a series of three to explain how to use the FT232RL USB to UART Bridge to program a Cyclone II FPGA. The first part in the series describes how to compile and install the hardware drivers in Ubuntu that we need to use to access the FT232RL functions. The [ READ MORE ]

Cyclone II – Bill of Materials

Three months ago I was staring at the Cyclone II FPGA Breakout board from SparkFun wondering what in the world I needed to do to make it work. If you’re wondering the same thing right now, well then you’ve come to the right place. In this post I’m going to put together a list of [ READ MORE ]

Cyclone II Breakout Board – “Hello World”

I threw together a quick demo to prove to myself that my FPGA was powered and working. It was important that the demonstration used some form of sequential logic, so that I could be sure the clock was alive and running as well. The ideal quick and easy first project would be to just output [ READ MORE ]