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19 years ago

Cyclone II FPGA Starter Kit + NIOS II

Is it possible to create a NIOS II design using the Cyclone II FPGA Starter Kit shown the the Altera website (link (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc2-2c20n.html)) ?

This kit is based on an EP2C20F484C7N device. Althogh NIOS II supports the Cyclone II family, the Quartus 6.1 SOPC builder does not list this kit as a known NIOS II dev kit !!

Does this mean that I have to create my own "board description file" (which I assume is a .PTF file) ? Has anyone else done this ?

Or is this board a non-starter ?

I've done a search on this forum, but can't find any relevant info. Any help / clues would be much appreciated.

Regards

Mark

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    19 years ago

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    originally posted by agdepus@Mar 6 2007, 11:21 PM

    it works fine.

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    Excellent ... I&#39;ll get one ordered. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

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    originally posted by agdepus@Mar 6 2007, 11:21 PM

    the only thing missing is ethernet.... http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#emo_dir#>/smile.gif

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    Not a problem for what I need to achieve.

    Thanks
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    originally posted by agdepus@Mar 6 2007, 11:21 PM

    it works fine.

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    I&#39;ve now got one of these dev. kits.

    Do you have one yourself, since I am having trouble getting a Nios II core up and running with any user code written in the Nios EDS ?

    Any help you could give would be great !!