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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

The DE2 board has two flash chips, external to the FPGA: an EPCS chip that is used to configure the FPGA, and a regular CFI flash that can hold the software and a readonly zip file system.

The zip filesystem is probably the easiest way to do this, you can use the Nios programmer to flash the zip file in the DE2's flash memory. The SD card solution is a bit more complex, and the USB solution is probably the most difficult. Check if you have example designs with the kit that uses one of those solutions.