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13 years agoMorph-IC II (Cyclone II) using vb.net in FIFO 245 mode
I have a Cyclone II (Morph-IC II) module that I need to communicatewith in FIFO 245 mode. I am new toAltera/FPGA and I do not know VHDL, but someone else is writing that code forthe module. What I am attempting is towrite the code for the PC to send a stream of data to the Cyclone II in FIFO245 mode. I am using Visual Basic.net 2010 and have thevb.net wrapper for the FTD2XX.dll and I was able to write programs to searchthe device and write/read from it, but FIFO 245 mode requires an OutputEnablefrom the Cyclone chip and I have not been able to figure out how to read thestatus of OE. I am not even sure if theWrapper allows the use of that mode or not.
I also need the ability to load .rbf files to the Cyclonethrough this program. Altera has anexample loader for vb.net, but I couldn’t get it to run on vb.net 2010. I was able to create a new project and copythe form/code from the loader example and I got it to run, but it wouldn’t seeany devices. Has anyone had any luckwith the vb.net loader from Altera? Thanks, Jim