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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

GPIO to memory to Ethernet

Hi all, we are research grad students trying to figure out how to get information from the DE2 board's GPIO i/o connectors and store it in the DE2's internal memory. The GPIO connector will recieve a...
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18 years ago

1. Learn the schematic of the DE2 board and get to know what FPGA pins correspond to which GPIO pins on the board. Do the same for the Ethernet PHY chip on board (don't quite remember if there is one on the DE2).

2. Learn NIOS II as Avatar suggested.

3. Get a software guru to write a program that reads Ethernet packets from your system and makes sense of them.

Good luck!

-dB