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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Problem with the MotionFire kit

Hello, I've acquired a MotionFire kit (a Cyclone III with some motion control hardware attached to it), and I'm trying to get the build environment up and the code to compile. I'm new to H...
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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Hi there,

Thanks for offering to help! I actually got in contact with my local FAE, and he had to write some patches to the FPGA project to make it compile. I'll ask him if I can post the patches. Mostly it turned out to be naming problems with the rotoenc block.

Did you manage to get any of the Nios projects to build? I'm stuck on the openfire2 project right now, specifically in of_cmd.h:

"array type has incomplete element type of_cmd.h /of2 line 34 C/C++ Problem"

I'm trying to make the MotionFire control two brushed servos with a single FireDriver board. This should be possible, but I'm just not sure where I should begin to make the changes fromt he kit's default setting (a single brushless servo). Do you happen to know if can you do it from the example program? If not, where would I start making changes to the code?

What's your experience with the MotionFire been like? I'm finding the documentation sort of... Sparse. I can't figure out how to set the include paths and libraries that they want; the documentation seems to refer to menus that don't exist anymore.