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14 years ago

7 Seven hardware for SOPC???????????

Hi everybody, I'm doing a designing for SOPC, I want to use 7Segment and in SOPC system, Which component do I need to use 7 Segment.????? Do I need PIO? Is it 7Segment?
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14 years ago

For each 7seg display you need 7 output pins in your softcore processor that you connect to the physical pins on your FPGA. The pio module of SOPC builder allows for 32 outputs: So, just choose 4*7=28 outputs and you're set!