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16 years ago

SOPC Builder, Ethernet, Custom Design and Memory

Hello, I have a development kit : StratixIII EP3SL150N FPGA: StratixIII EP3SL150F1152C2N. I designed a system which include a NCO. ( NCO MegaCore v9.0 ) This NCO generate a digital sin...
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16 years ago

ethernet is kind of overkill to just update the NCO frequency. you can make a small Nios + JTAG UART + PIO system. add some code to interpret some input ASCII from the JTAG UART into a binary vector, and send that to the PIO. the PIO is then connected to the phase increment input of the NCO.