about downloading program to board

Hello,

If you have a DE0-CV just like mine you can start with the examples that come with the board.

There are even ones that do not require quartus, with these you can check your hardware.

Once this succeeds you can start with a small program in verilog in Quartus (do not begin with Qsys, too difficult)

From there you can move on further.

From my experience: some of the universtity documentation from altera seems a little bit outdated, the examples that came with my board were a big help, most certainly to get the SDRAM more or less operational.

Good Luck,

John.