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16 years agoHi, I use Quartus for my designs, so I edit the Assignments and Pins from there. There is a tab Assignments in the Software, from which you can open the PinPlanner. It shouldn't be T1. In the documentation they say you have to use Pin12, but in the example projects, they have set PinT1, which seems wrong to me and schould be corrected.
How do you use the Project? Haven't you got the NEEK Evaluation_Kit CD? There are all Documents and ExampleDesigns on it. You can find that on Alteras FTP. I opened the "Standard" Example from the Example Folder of the CD and just looked into PinPlanner to see if the LEDs are connected correct. There is also a little Hardware-Example on the CD, which lets the LEDs count in Hardware. The name is hardware_tutorials/my_first_hardware_tutorial.pdf perhaps try that on your neek first. (When you power up the neek there is also one of the LEDs blinking. Are you sure you have got your custom code running correctly? Normally you have to built a NIOS-Design, connect the relevant Pins, do synthesis and load the Design into the FPGA. Before that you can't run your custom c-code on the NIOS. It's a silly question, but you are sure that runs ok?) Edit: the link is ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/download/support/ip/processors/nios2/cycloneiii_3c25_niosii-v8.0.0.exe