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14 years ago

Loading SRAM,SDRAM or FLASH on DE1, using Linux, without Qsys, SOPC or NIOS

I have a design which needs data preloaded into one or more of NVRAM and/or SRAM and/or SDRAM on a DE1. I am using Quartus II Web Edition 11.1 sp1. I am not using Qsys, SOPC or NIOS, as the d...
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14 years ago

Hi Andy,

Since you are a beginner, it would be useful for you to describe what you are trying to do, and what needs to be initialized. That way others can offer alternative solutions.

For example, it looks like the DE1 has Flash and an SD card. Flash is probably the easiest to use, since your logic in the FPGA can read it after power-on. However, perhaps the SD card would be more useful, since you can plug it into your PC and write data to it there.

But then again, perhaps you don't really need either of these. What you may really need is a connection between your PC and the DE1 so that you can transfer data to on-board memory, and then 'enable' your FPGA logic.

Cheers,

Dave