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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

How to use open IP cores without the megawizard

I must have missed something, because I can't seem to find anything on how to use an IP core from for example opencores. I keep finding things about use the megawizard to generate IP cores, but I jus...
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12 years ago

A core is nothing more than bunch of vhdl/verilog files. Megawizard helps you to parameterize these files and some of them may be encrypted, but you should not care what is inside. Think about cores as black boxes, that do the work you need.