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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Choosing the correct device/product (FPGA devices)

Good day

I am currently working on a project for university were I have the option to use a FPGA device. Basically I need to be able to communicate with two different micro controllers (probably pic18f45k20's) and then be able to take the info they supply and save it on a SD card or micro SD card. I was thinking of buying a development board to do all this but I am not sure what to choose and if it is even possible to do what I want to do. I am a relative newcomer to FPGA's, I have only played around with them a little...would say I know the basics.

Is it possible to do these things stated above with one of the Altera products? And how difficult will it be to achieve these goals?:confused:

Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks :)

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    I also am reletively new, but I am now working on a microcontrollerless SD-card implementation. Most implementations are done with a microcontroller running on the FPGA. Depending on the protocol you want to use the difficulty varies. There are a lot of examples using SPI as protocol. I am trying to write my own implementation for the 4-bit protocol. And that is, for as far as I can guess, a lot of work. Not only writing code, but also in finding out the specs of the protocol.

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    12 years ago

    I am not too worried about working, I just want to prevent doing all the hard work and then realize I am not going to be able to achieve my goals with the device I purchased. But I think I am just gonna go for a BeMicro SDK, if its not able to do what I need it to do I'll find another way ;)

    Thanks for the reply