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12 years ago

Implement Arduino into Altera FPGA

Hi, my name is Andy. I'm working on a 2m tall robot and try to use a FPGA to control it. I'm thinking to implement a Atmel softcore into my small Cyclone IV board. Did anyone try it before? Can ...
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12 years ago

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These guys have created an FPGA-based Arduino board (using a Xilinx device)

http://papilio.cc/

The processor is an AVR core from OpenCores. I'm sure you can get it working on an Altera FPGA.

Cheers,

Dave

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Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply.

Here is the procedure, right?

1. Get a FPGA board (I have NIOSII development board)

2. Get the AVR core from OpenCore (ATmega168 or ATmega328) This link? http://opencores.org/project,avr_core

3. Download Ardunio Bootloader (http://arduino.cc/en/tutorial/arduinoisp), Wonder about the 3.3V and 5V stuff

4. Program the Ardunio using a FT232 board(http://www.instructables.com/id/diy-arduino-or-the-diy-duino/step23/programming/)

I like Altera but it's NIOSII is just too big for a simple MCU. And it's 3.3V pin can't tolerant 5V annoys me.

Here is my two meter tall Robot in progress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvmpcymyqg0

And my Iron Bear using Arduino

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_-no1ey_8a&feature=c4-overview&list=uumjlgyadhmxwnlorrffi9ww

Cheers,

Andy