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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

DE1 with SD-card reader

Hello, I would like to use the SD-card reader on the DE1 development board in order to store pictures that I want to display on a screen, through the VGA connector. I already create a VGA ...
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15 years ago

For SD card connection picture you can simply Google with "SD card pinout".

Implementing a simple SD card controller is not difficult.

You need a SPI master port and a sofware driver which manages the SD protocol.

Download the SD card specification from www.sdcard.org (the simplified specification is enough)

Read it and implement the required commands in your driver.

Good luck

Regards