Terasic De0-Nano, User Manual

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The driver will now be installed as indicated in Figure 6-7 . Click Finish and you can start using the
DE0-Nano board.
Figure 6-7 The driver is installed
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In this tutorial you will perform the following tasks:
Create a design that causes LEDs on the development board to blink at two distinct rates. This
design is easy to create and gives you visual feedback that the design works. Of course, you can use
your DE0-Nano board to run other designs as well. For the LED design, you will write Verilog HDL
code for a simple 32-bit counter, add a phase-locked loop (PLL) megafunction as the clock source,
and add a 2-input multiplexer megafunction. When the design is running on the board, you can
press an input switch to multiplex the counter bits that drive the output LEDs.
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Begin this tutorial by creating a new Quartus II project. A project is a set of files that maintain
information about your FPGA design. The Quartus II Settings File (.qsf) and Quartus II Project File
(.qpf) files are the primary files in a Quartus II project. To compile a design or make pin
assignments, you must first create a project. The steps used to create a project are: