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14 years ago

How to input an existing image file into the FPGA

I'm very new to FPGA's so I was wondering, what are the possible methods of entering an image into an FPGA device? I'm using a DE2 board by the way. I wish to place the image in a mass storage...
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14 years ago

I have done this before.

when I was new I did not have way to read bmp file on the FPGA.

therefore I made C program which make bmp.h file from bitmap(raw) binary image.

also I made C program which works on the NiosII.

the NiosII program writes the data from bmp.h into flash-memory.

after that, another NiosII program reads the image from flash to use.

if you know a lot about ethernet / SD card or some other way.

you can put image from LAN or SD card / USB and so on.

the way I wrote is not professional but still works.

see you.