Sigma manual DE2-70 Control Panel, Control Panel Setup

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DE2-70 User Manual

Chapter 3

DE2-70 Control Panel

The DE2-70 board comes with a Control Panel facility that allows users to access various components on the board from a host computer. The host computer communicates with the board through an USB connection. The facility can be used to verify the functionality of components on the board or be used as a debug tool while developing RTL code.

This chapter first presents some basic functions of the Control Panel, then describes its structure in block diagram form, and finally describes its capabilities.

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3.1 Control Panel Setup

The Control Panel Software Utility is located in the “DE2_70_control_pane/SW” folder in the DE2-70 System CD-ROM. To install it, just copy the whole folder to your host computer. Launch the control panel by executing the “DE2_70_Control_Panel.exe”.

Specific control codes should be downloaded to your FPGA board before the control panel can request it to perform required tasks. The control codes include one .sof file and one .elf file. To download the codes, just click the “Download Code” button on the program. The program will call Quartus II and Nios II tools to download the control codes to the FPGA board through USB-Blaster[USB-0] connection. The .sof file is downloaded to FPGA. The .elf file is downloaded to either SDRAM-U2 or SSRAM, according to the user option.

To activate the Control Panel, perform the following steps:

1.Make sure Quartus II and NIOS II are installed successfully on your PC.

2.Connect the supplied USB cable to the USB Blaster port, connect the 12V power supply, and turn the power switch ON

3.Set the RUN/PROG switch to the RUN position

4.Start the executable DE2_70_control_panel.exe on the host computer. The Control Panel user interface shown in Figure 3.1 will appear.

5.Select the target memory, SDRAM-U2or SSRAM, on the control panel. Note. The .elf file will be downloaded to the target memory and the memory will be read-only in later memory access operation.

6.Click Download Code button. Note, the Control Panel will occupy the USB port until you

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Contents Copyright 2007 Terasic Technologies Contents Appendix Package Contents DE2-70 PackageDE2-70 Board Assembly Feet for the DE2-70 boardGetting Help Altera DE2-70 Board Layout and ComponentsBlock Diagram of the DE2-70 Board Cyclone II 2C70 Fpga Ssram Audio Codec Power-up the DE2-70 Board Serial portsLCD display shows Welcome to the Altera DE2-70 Control Panel Setup DE2-70 Control PanelPage Controlling the LEDs, 7-Segment Displays and LCD Display Controlling 7-SEG display Switches and Buttons SDRAM/SSRAM/Flash Controller and Programmer Page Press Load Memory Content to a File button USB MonitoringPS2 Device USB Mouse Monitoring ToolSD Card 10. Reading the SD card Identification and Specification Audio Playing and RecordingPage Overall Structure of the DE2-70 Control Panel 13. The block diagram of the DE2-70 control panel Video Utility Setup DE2-70 Video UtilityVGA Display DE2-70 Video Utility windowVideo Capture Displaying selected image file on VGA MonitorOverall Structure of the DE2-70 Video Utility Video Capturing ToolVideo Capture Block Diagram Using the DE2-70 Board Configuring the Cyclone II FpgaFpga Using the LEDs and Switches Switch debouncingSchematic diagram of the pushbutton and toggle switches Schematic diagram of the LEDs Pin assignments for the toggle switches Using the 7-segment Displays Schematic diagram of the 7-segment displaysPINAD10 Clock Circuitry Block diagram of the clock distribution Using the LCD Module LcdonUsing the Expansion Header JP1 PIND29 Pin assignments for the expansion headers Using VGA Rset13. VGA horizontal timing specification 11. ADV7123 pin assignments Using the 24-bit Audio Codec I2C Address Read is 0x34 I2C Address Write isRS-232 Serial Port 10 PS/2 Serial PortPS/2 schematic Fast Ethernet Network Controller17. Fast Ethernet schematic TV Decoder 18. TV Decoder schematic Implementing a TV Encoder Bit VGA DACUsing USB Host and Device OTGD15 OTGD14 OTGD13 OTGD12 OTGD11 OTGD10Using IrDA Using SDRAM/SRAM/Flash IrDA schematic22. Sdram schematic 23. Ssram schematic PINAA4 DRAM0CKE PINAA8 19. Sdram pin assignments SRAMDQ8 PINAK17 20. Ssram pin assignments 21. Flash pin assignments DE2-70 Factory Configuration Examples of Advanced DemonstrationsTV Box Demonstration Block diagram of the TV box demonstration Setup for the TV box demonstration TV Box Picture in Picture PIP DemonstrationBit stream used DE270TVPIP.sof or DE270TVPIP.pof Setup for the TV box PIP demonstration USB Paintbrush Block diagram of the USB paintbrush demonstration Setup for the USB paintbrush demonstration USB DeviceBlock diagram of the USB device demonstration Setup for the USB device demonstration Karaoke MachineBit stream used DE2-70i2sound.sof or DE2-70i2sound.pof 10. The setup for the Karaoke Machine Ethernet Packet Sending/Receiving11. Packet sending and receiving using the Nios II processor 12. The setup for the Ethernet demonstration SD Card Music Player13. Block diagram of the SD music player demonstration Demonstration Setup, File Locations, and Instructions 16 illustrates the setup for this demonstration Music Synthesizer Demonstration17 illustrates the setup for this demonstration Usage of the switches, pushbuttons KEYs PS/2 Keyboard 16. The Setup of the Music Synthesizer Demonstration Audio Recording and Playing Nios II IDESopc Toggle switch setting for audio recorder and player Revision History Copyright Statement