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21 years ago

image compression on nios

i am a post-garaduate in Electronics from IISc. we purchaised Nios board recently. i want to implement 2-d image compression on this board. i am requesting forum members to help me to start my project.

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    21 years ago

    What board did you get? (Cyclone or Stratix and what size FPGA?)

    This sounds a lot like a project that I'm working on from home (haven't got far because I'm always busy). Anyway, let me know if you have questions and I'll try to help as well.

    Cheers.
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    21 years ago

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    originally posted by badomen@Dec 17 2004, 11:15 AM

    what board did you get? (cyclone or stratix and what size fpga?)

    this sounds a lot like a project that i'm working on from home (haven't got far because i'm always busy). anyway, let me know if you have questions and i'll try to help as well.

    cheers.

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    Thank you for your replay. first ofa ll am sorry for the delay for responding. we are using NIOS II STRATIX EDITION KIT with STRATIX EP1S10F780C6 device. I would like to know how to down load the image into the board memory as i never used the board for this application. also i want to know how to retreive the image from the downloaded memory?

    thanking you
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    21 years ago

    You should give the Nios II tutorials a try. They're really quite well written and should give you a good idea of what's necessary to start app development on the Nios II processor.

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    21 years ago

    ...beyond the tutorials two suggestions for file 'upload' to the board:

    1. Modify our 'web_server' example to support HTTP POST. Actually, it does support POST, but just prints out a silly message to demonstrate it. You'd need to add the additional code to figure out that a file was coming to malloc space for the file, and then to receive it via the sockets interface. This is probably documented/exampled in other open-source web server software out there.

    2. Find the compact-flash example designs from our partner Microtronix. There is a compact-flash component that covers the hardware. I am not sure if there is file-system-read support in this, but its worth a look. This way you could copy files to CF and then copy them into Nios memory.