
Altera Corporation
Core Version a.b.c variable
3–5
April 2007
Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit User Guide
Using the Control Panel
The feature of reading from or writing a byte to an entire file to the flash
memory enables you to develop multimedia applications (for example,
Flash Audio Player, Flash Picture Viewer) without having to build a flash
memory programmer.
Read/Write Data
To perform a read/write operation with a byte of data from/to the flash
memory, perform the following steps:
1.
Click the
FLASH
tab (
) and type the data in the
Random
Access
boxes.
Figure 3–3. Control Panel Flash Tab
2.
Click
Chip Erase (2 Min)
. Wait for the operation to finish by
observing the button and window frame title prompt. This takes
about 2 minutes.
3.
Type the desired address in the
Address
box and the data byte in the
wDATA
box.
4.
Click
Write
.
5.
To read a byte of data from a random location, enter the desired
address and click
Read
. The
rDATA
box displays the content of the
specified address.