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12 years ago

General questions from a first time user...

Hello all, I have recently discovered FPGA's thanks to Grant Searle's web site, which contains instructions on how to program a Z80 computer on an Altera EP2C5T144C8N mini board. Essentially, I've...
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12 years ago

I wrote a simple top-level design for the DE1 and posted it in this thread:

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35687

Download de1_basic.zip, unzip it, (delete the qwork folder), and follow the instructions in the readme.txt file.

This does not include the use of memory or VGA, but it does provide you with a (somewhat) "Golden" top-level reference design. Its "somewhat" in that I do not have this board, so have not tested this design, but others on the forum have :)

Cheers,

Dave