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The concept of the C5G Control Panel is illustrated in
. The “Control Circuit” that
performs the control functions is implemented in the FPGA board. It communicates with the
Control Panel window, which is active on the host computer, via the USB Blaster link. The
graphical interface is used to send commands to the control circuit. It handles all the requests and
performs data transfers between the computer and the Cyclone V Starter Kit board.
Figure 2-2 The C5G Control Panel concept
The C5G Control Panel can be used to light up LEDs, change the values displayed on 7-segment,
monitor buttons/switches status, read/write the SRAM and LPDDR2 Memory, output HDMI-TX
color pattern to VGA monitor, verify functionality of HSMC connector I/Os, communicate with PC
via UART to USB interface, read SD Card specification information. The feature of reading/writing
a word or an entire file from/to the Memory allows the user to develop multimedia applications
(Flash Audio Player, Flash Picture Viewer) without worrying about how to build a Memory
Programmer.