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Chapter 4
DE0-Nano Control Panel
The DE0-Nano board comes with a Control Panel facility that allows users to access various
components on the board from a host computer. The host computer communicates with the board
through a USB connection. The facility can be used to verify the functionality of components on the
board or be used as a debug tool while developing RTL code.
This chapter first presents some basic functions of the Control Panel, then describes its structure in
block diagram form, and finally describes its capabilities.
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The Control Panel Software Utility is located in the directory
“tools/DE0_NANO_ControlPanel
” in
the
DE0-Nano System CD
. It's free of installation, just copy the whole folder to your host computer
and launch the control panel by executing the “DE0_NANO_ControlPanel.exe”.
When Control Panel starts it will attempt to download a configuration file onto the DE0-Nano board.
The configuration file contains a design that communicates with the peripheral devices on the board
that are attached to the FPGA device. Perform the following steps to ensure that the control panel
starts up successfully:
1. Make sure Quartus II 10.0 or later version is installed successfully on your PC.
2. Connect a USB A to Mini-B cable to a USB (Type A) host port and to the board.
3. Start the executable DE0_NANO_ControlPanel.exe on the host computer. The Control Panel
user interface shown in
Figure 4-1
will appear.
5. The DE0_NANO_ControlPanel.sof bit stream is loaded automatically as soon as the
DE0_NANO_ControlPanel.exe is launched.
6. In case the connection is disconnected, click on CONNECT where the .sof will be re-loaded
onto the board.
Note: the Control Panel will occupy the USB port until you choose to close the program or
disconnect it from the board by clicking the Disconnect button. While the Control Panel is
connected to the board, you will be unable to use Quartus II to download a configuration file into
the FPGA.
Summary of Contents for De0-Nano
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Page 4: ...4 9 3 Revision History 155 9 4 Copyright Statement 155 ...
Page 44: ...44 Figure 6 5 Browse to find the location Figure 6 6 There is no need to test the driver ...
Page 90: ...90 Figure 7 14 Add NIOS II Processor ...
Page 93: ...93 Figure 7 17 Rename the CPU 1 Figure 7 18 Rename the CPU 2 ...
Page 98: ...98 Figure 7 23 Add On Chip Memory ...
Page 100: ...100 Figure 7 25 Update Total memory size ...
Page 102: ...102 Figure 7 28 Update CPU settings ...
Page 104: ...104 Figure 7 30 Add PIO ...
Page 106: ...106 Figure 7 32 PIO 21 Rename pio_0 to pio_led as shown in Figure 7 33 Figure 7 33 Rename PIO ...
Page 113: ...113 Figure 7 43 Input verilog Text Figure 7 44 Open DE0_NANO_SOPC v ...
Page 146: ...146 Figure 8 16 Display Progress and Result Information for the SDRAM Demonstration ...
Page 150: ...150 Figure 9 3 Select Devices Page ...
Page 151: ...151 Figure 9 4 Convert Programming Files Page ...