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11 years ago

Sending in/out images to FPGA DE0 nano

H Folks, I need to send an image from my laptop to the fpga, fpga will run a FIR and then I need to receive the filtered image back again to my laptop. Basically I need to understand the mechan...
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11 years ago

The DE0-nano has a built-in USB-Blaster, so you can use that for transfers, eg., read this tutorial

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/using_the_usb-blaster_as_an_sopc/qsys_avalon-mm_master_tutorial

If that is too slow for your needs, then you'll have to look at building an adapter board to connect to something faster. Eg., an FTDI FT232H device in FIFO mode ... see

https://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/correlator/pdf/ftdi.pdf

http://www.digikey.com/catalog/en/partgroup/ft232h-evaluation-board-um232h/15430

Though I haven't seen a kit that would just allow you to plug this sort of board (the UM232H module) into a DE0-nano, but it would be easy to make one ...

Cheers,

Dave