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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

You also have the option to use the read-only zip filesystem (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/n2sw_nii52012.pdf). You put your bmp file in an uncompressed .zip file, flash that file to a specific location, and enable the filesystem option in Eclipse. Then you'll be able to read your file with the standard file functions.