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17 years ago

beginner help with understanding altera project workflow - DE2 board

Hi all,

I am new to development with the DE2 board and to developing apps for FPGA in general.

With altera i am having trouble getting the big picture ... heres what i understand right now. would appreciate if someone can fill in the blanks / correct it :)

1. altera 2 ide - ???

2. sopc builder - to build a system description (what all components, their addresses, properties etc.)

3. NIOS IDE - to actually code the software processor

any help will be much appreciated !

thanks

-ankit

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    Altera_Forum
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    17 years ago

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    I am new to development with the DE2 board and to developing apps for FPGA in general.

    With altera i am having trouble getting the big picture ... heres what i understand right now. would appreciate if someone can fill in the blanks / correct it :)

    1. altera 2 ide - ???

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    This question is unclear... It could have been:

    1. Altera DE2 - altera development and education board

    2. Quartus - software environment for designing, analyzing, simulating, synthezing, mapping and downloading designs to an altera FPGA.

    3. ...

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    2. sopc builder - to build a system description (what all components, their addresses, properties etc.)

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    SOPC Builder is a tool in the Quartus environment for defining, composing and generating bus-based architectures. Its major use is for designing Nios II processor based systems.

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    3. NIOS IDE - to actually code the software processor

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    Software environment for developing software on Nios based processor systems.