Thank you for the response people.
@Allen, you make it sound very easy to use the GPIOs. I am fairly new to the world of FPGAs and still playing around with the Nios processor on my DE2 board. I spent 5 days just getting my sdram running. Tried everything I read here on the forum. PLL's didn't work, Altera's sdram mega core function didn't work. Finally I found the Univerty IP Core called Clock Signals that did the trick for me. So I am determined to dive in this new world but it takes time for me.
Regarding GPIOs and Infrared modules, do I have to do all the processing like using the ADC, DAC, etc? Also I wasn't able to find any good documentation on using the IrDa Core?
Can you people point me in the right direction?
Thanks a lot again. Appreciate your inputs.
P.S: If I am not mistaken, Allen, you have some videos on YouTube, right, under the Terasic group? Thanks for those videos too.