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9 years ago

Interfacing a MCU to a FPGA (Serial or Parallel)

Hello Has anyone any experience of interfacing a MCU to a Cyclone IV or V? I don't want to build a SoC or anything that complex, just some simple lab exercises that "robustly" interface a...
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9 years ago

It would be a good exercise for your students to design a SPI slave from scratch that can be used to communicate with the MCU (instead of using IP). I2C would work as well, but it would not be my first choice for a MCU/FPGA interface (too slow vs. SPI, and the protocol is a little trickier).