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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Hello new world!!

hi everybody!

As you might guess i am new!!:-)

I have been interesting to fpga anfd vhdl word sice several time, but i have never had a board to try something real. Now i would really like to buy a board to start practicing but i don't really know what to buy.

I am oriented to an avarage kit , let's say about 200-230 $ expensive.

So what do you suggest?

thank you

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    Altera_Forum
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    15 years ago

    Hi again. Looking at the various manual i saw that the sram of the board is readeble and witeable using an appropriate gui, but can i create a sram controllor to read and write it?

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    15 years ago

    Thank you again!

    So i've just had a look at the board you suggested and i saw that it cames out qith quartusii to program it, but does it allow you to use vhdl to create a project??

    Bye
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    15 years ago

    The DE2-70 has two 32-Mbyte SDRAM, which should be enough in your case.

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    15 years ago

    So i would like to ask you another thing.

    I need to store a frame 320x240 pixel ( 16 bits for each pixel) but working with a pic32 doesn't allow you to store a frame t; so i thought that writing a a big ram in vhdl could help me. What i mean is to create a storage 256k x 16 bit wide which is filled by the camera ( parallel stream) and then read by the pic32, without using external memory.

    So is it possible or do you suggest something better?

    Thank you for your attention!!! :-)