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libFTDI v0.18 with Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx)

Now that I’ve upgraded my computer, I no longer have a Parallel port which renders my Altera FPGA Compatible Programmer obsolete. Instead of buying a $300 USB-Blaster from Altera, I’m developing a much cheaper solution… In my next post I’m going to show a technique I’ve come up with to configure the Cyclone II FPGA [ READ MORE ]

Configuring the Cyclone II

Here is a quick tutorial to demonstrate how to create a new Quartus II HDL project, compile it, then download it to your device. Before we start there are a couple of prerequisites you’ll have to take care of first if you wish to follow along. Obviously, you will need to get your hands on [ 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 ]

Cyclone II FPGA Clock Selection

Time to take a look at clocks, and what exactly we need for the Cyclone II FPGA. I’ve spent considerable time digging around in different corners of the internet trying to find good advice on selecting a clock for my FPGA without much luck. So, I decided to get my hands dirty and figure it [ READ MORE ]