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9 years ago

demonstration of parallel operation of fpga

Hi everyone,

am a beginner in the FPGA technology, i presently have the cyclone-lll DE0 FPGA board from Altera.

If i design simple programs, like a counter and a multiplexer. How do i load the programs and run them simultaneously on the FPGA to demonstrate the parallel advantage of the FPGA??

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    9 years ago

    if you have multiple entities which you want to run in parallel they need to be compiled together, but since you are kust beginning I would only do that when the tutorials you may follow do that.

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    9 years ago

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    First of all - an FPGA does not run "programs" - it compiles your HDL (hardware description language) code and coverts it to a digital circuit.

    To see something running in an FPGA - compile your code - and then you can download the .sof file directly to the FPGA via a JTAG cable. Altera provides many tutorials on how to use Quartus and FPGA dev boards:

    https://www.altera.com/support/training/university/materials-tutorials.html

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    thanks for your response pietervanderStar, i will go through the materials-tutorials and, will contact you if i need further assistance in the compilation of separate entities.