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Altera_Forum
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13 years agoRight clicking certainly brought up a plethora of options. But I did not see anything like "board support options."
I desperately wish I could find a simple tutorial that indicates step-by-step how to create, compile, and download a program to blink a few lights on a DE0-Nano. The CDs that came with the board do not contain Nios II but do have a Nios II tutorial. Meanwhile, the Quartus II 12.0 Web Edition does contain Nios II, but it's a version so different from the one used in the tutorial that the tutorial is rendered worthless. I've checked the "Cheat Sheets" that come with Nios II 12.0, but they are very general and long-winded. It is impossible to tell what is relevant to my present situation and what isn't. For now, I just want to blink a few LEDs with a C program running on the Nios II instantiation that I've already created and loaded onto the FPGA. The endless confusing, irrelevant, and mystifying options that saturate the Nios II IDE are aggravating. They obfuscate the simple path that would lead to the very modest success I'm seeking right now. It's a Kafkaesque nightmare at times.