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Altera_Forum
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7 years agoghertz,
I'm afraid I can't see the image you posted. It's too small. But it sounds like you need to become more familiar with the Quartus tools. The free Altera online training is very good: https://www.altera.com/support/training/catalog.html I'd select Course Type = Online, Language = English and Curriculum = "Fundamentals Part 1". I found "Become an FPGA Designer in 4 Hours" very helpful along with others. Although the Altera Quartus FPGA tools and training are great, their SoC tools and training are mind numbingly useless garbage designed by crazy people. If you want to use an FPGA SoC, which is probably smart if you need TCP/IP in a real application, you would be smart to switch to Xilinx. The Zedboard is an inexpensive way to get started and uses the free version of their tools. The Xilinx SoC FPGAs are, in my opinion, inferior to Altera, but their SoC tools make Altera look ridiculous. The Altera SoC tools are actually getting worse and I've been told they have no intention of fixing them. I was able to get a TCP/IP application up and running on a Zedboard in a few hours (follow Zynq Geeks tutorial). I've spent weeks on Altera tools and am still scratching my head.