SOPC Builder Components WITHOUT a NIOS?

Hi Victors.

I'm a beginner with Nios II and Quartus II. My developing board mounts a Cyclone II FPGA EP2C35.

I must interface an external Camera (C3088 made of Omnivision OV6620 sensor) with that board but, i don't know how to do that. I mean, the connection to PROTO1/PROT2, it's ok, but how create the interface with the internal system?Should i use Avalon MM? I have look to Portable Reference Board project but is really hard to understand.

Can you give some advices about what you learn on seminary?

Many thanks

Paolo

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originally posted by victors@Jan 10 2006, 11:06 AM

i went to one of altera's seminars (got the nice t-shirt as well :-) )where they demo-ed in detail how to connect external devices and cpus to the fpga, using sopc builder, without using nios. so yes it is possible.

you could do weird and wonderful things like connecting an 8051 to sdram or giving it 10 serial ports.

yes, you also have to connect it as a slave or master. slave is easy, master more tricky.

victor schutte

www.zerksus.com

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