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15 years ago

help with ssd module on cyclone ii

helo evryone. am a newbie to fpga and vhdl programming. i would like to know how i can get to display numbers on the seven segment display of the cyclone ii board several times without powering off t...
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15 years ago

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thanks so much dave! am so sorry, but how wide should the counter width be? thanx as always!

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C'mon, that is part of the challenge, you won't learn without thinking!

Hint:

If I have a 50MHz clock, and I want the most significant bit of the counter to change every 1 second, then I need to count 50MHz x 1s = 50M samples. How wide would my counter need to be?

Cheers,

Dave