Frame reader initialization

Hey Peet,

Thanks for the example design. I studied it for a few hours today but I must confess that I don't get NIOS IDE to Run it properly... I never get an image, the programs says the "Program running, wait!" line, and then it sort of dies. I have a feeling it has something to do with the include paths (altough the project builds properly, I saw you have a drivers directory and a HAL directory included in your bsp directory). But I have no real clue (the NEEK is fine, because I see the ALTERA logo every time I start it up ;) ) what that problem could be (I'm not a specialist in NIOS or Eclipse, I must confess)

On the other hand I have some good news for the hardware, after looking at your SOPC project, I noticed that you configured the FR to output 3 color planes in parallel, and I saw the configuration of the VCO, which also had the parallel option on. I would change this to 3 planes in sequence (in the VCO and FR), because the VCO just outputs the data in the same format he gets it in, when it's parallel he outputs parallel data, when it's a sequens, he outputs a sequens. And the MAX II chip expects sequential data. I tested this with a standard TPG -> CVO setup and the symbols prooved my theory. My new theory I cannot test because I can't get the standard program to run properly...

I have a bit of a feeling that I really let you down by having such stupid problems (why I cannot run your software properly...) although I tried every tutorial Altera is offering on their website... I'm really sorry for that.

Thanks again for all your help!

Best,

Hans