Altera DE2 Board
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 DE2-70 Package ............................................................................................................... 1
1.1 Package
Contents .................................................................................................................1
1.2
The DE2-70 Board Assembly .............................................................................................. 2
1.3 Getting
Help......................................................................................................................... 3
Chapter 2 Altera DE2-70 Board .......................................................................................................4
2.1 Layout
and
Components ......................................................................................................4
2.2
Block Diagram of the DE2-70 Board ..................................................................................5
2.3
Power-up the DE2-70 Board................................................................................................9
Chapter 3 DE2-70 Control Panel.................................................................................................... 11
3.1
Control Panel Setup ........................................................................................................... 11
3.2
Controlling the LEDs, 7-Segment Displays and LCD Display .........................................13
3.3
Switches and Buttons .........................................................................................................15
3.4
SDRAM/SSRAM/Flash Controller and Programmer........................................................ 16
3.5 USB
Monitoring.................................................................................................................18
3.6 PS2
Device......................................................................................................................... 19
3.7 SD
CARD .......................................................................................................................... 20
3.8
Audio Playing and Recording ............................................................................................ 21
3.9
Overall Structure of the DE2-70 Control Panel .................................................................23
Chapter 4 DE2-70 Video Utility ...................................................................................................... 25
4.1
Video Utility Setup............................................................................................................. 25
4.2 VGA
Display...................................................................................................................... 26
4.3 Video
Capture .................................................................................................................... 27
4.4
Overall Structure of the DE2-70 Video Utility ..................................................................28
Chapter 5 Using the DE2-70 Board................................................................................................30
5.1
Configuring the Cyclone II FPGA ..................................................................................... 30
5.2
Using the LEDs and Switches............................................................................................32
5.3
Using the 7-segment Displays............................................................................................36
5.4 Clock
Circuitry................................................................................................................... 38
5.5
Using the LCD Module...................................................................................................... 40
5.6
Using the Expansion Header..............................................................................................41
5.7 Using
VGA ........................................................................................................................ 45
5.8
Using the 24-bit Audio CODEC ........................................................................................ 48
5.9
RS-232 Serial Port .............................................................................................................49
5.10 PS/2
Serial
Port .................................................................................................................. 49
5.11
Fast Ethernet Network Controller ...................................................................................... 50