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19 years ago

Sending data to FPGA - Need Help

Anyone know how I can send a 16 bit binary word typed from a keyboard and send it to an input on my FPGA board? I am using Quartus ii and Terasic C1 development board. A gui with an input box and ...
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18 years ago

In the past, I would use Nios+JTAG with download cable as the communication interface and use nios-console to write in values. Quartus now has features such as In-System memory editor and In-System Sources and Probes. Haven't tried them but I think which help you achieve what you want. Only need a download cable and Quartus.

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/qts/qts_qii53012.pdf

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/qts/qts_qii53021.pdf