Cyclone V SoC FPGA development kit GPIOs

Hello Amna Tarheem,

With your board a resource CD is supplied.

You can download this CD aslo from the terrasic website.

On the CD there is a tool called system builder.

I downloaded the CD to look at it and found in in the following directory;

C:\Users\jogi\Downloads\SoCKit_v.3.0.0_SystemCD.zip\Tools\SystemBuilder

The systembuilder is used to generate a project framework automatically with the Pin assignments you need.

When you start Systembuilder you can select the I/O devices you want to include in your project.

Just check the boxes of the i/o's you want and press generate.

Then you can open the generated project framework in quartus. (open the qpf file)

Once you have opened this file you can access all I/O's for the FPGA by adding them as an i/o parameter to your main VHDL/Verilog file in your project.

You can see details of the pin/io assignments in pin planner in quartus (menu: assgiments / pin planner)

There you see in column "node name" the name you need to use in your project.

library ieee;
use ieee.std_logic_1164.all;
use ieee.numeric_std.all;
entity ent_main is
   port(
    -- reset button:
    reset_n : in std_logic;
    
    -- leds on board:
    led: out std_logic_vector(3 downto 0);

...

Best Regards,

Johi.