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12 years ago

De2-115 windows application to control Cyclone chip

Hi, I bought Altera board (development) DE2-115 In the example CD - there is a very nice PC application with UI - when pressing buttons-> altera board light leds, show LCD when you write in PC e...
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12 years ago

The official (and documented) way to do this is to use system console. Using SOPC builder or QSys you can create an FPGA system with a JTAG to Avalon master (you don't need a Nios CPU to do that) and in system console you can create a GUI to control your board. System console uses TCL though, and not C# or C++.