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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 ...
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9 years ago

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