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3.9
Overall Structure of the DE3 Control Panel
The DE3 Control Panel communicates with control codes, which are instantiated in the Stratix III
FPGA..
To run the Control Panel, users must set it up first, as explained in Section 3.1.
Figure 3.16
depicts
the structure of the Control Panel. Each input/output device is controlled by the NIOS II Processor
instantiated in the FPGA chip. The communication with the PC is done via the USB Blaster link.
The NIOS II interprets the commands sent from the PC and performs the appropriate actions.
Figure 3.16. The block diagram of the DE3 control panel
Summary of Contents for Altera DE3
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Page 67: ...DE3 User Manual 64 Figure 5 5 Plug USB Devices into DE3 Figure 5 6 Display Device Information ...
Page 75: ...DE3 User Manual 72 Figure 5 14 Display SD Card Information for the SD Card Demonstration ...
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Page 114: ...DE3 User Manual 111 Figure D 5 The reported message of the invalid I O pins ...