
Altera DE1 Board
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CONTENTS
Chapter 1 DE1 Package..................................................................................................................... 1
1.1
Package Contents ................................................................................................................. 1
1.2
The DE1 Board Assembly.................................................................................................... 2
1.3
Getting Help ......................................................................................................................... 2
Chapter 2 Altera DE1 Board............................................................................................................. 3
2.1
Layout and Components ...................................................................................................... 4
2.2
Block Diagram of the DE1 Board........................................................................................ 5
2.3
Power-up the DE1 Board ..................................................................................................... 8
Chapter 3 DE1 Control Panel ......................................................................................................... 10
3.1
Control Panel Setup ........................................................................................................... 10
3.2
Controlling the LEDs and 7-Segment Displays ................................................................. 12
3.3
SDRAM/SRAM Controller and Programmer.................................................................... 13
3.4
Flash Memory Programmer ............................................................................................... 14
3.5
Overall Structure of the DE1 Control Panel ...................................................................... 16
3.6
TOOLS – Multi-Port SRAM/SDRAM/Flash Controller ................................................... 18
3.7
VGA Display Control......................................................................................................... 19
Chapter 4 Using the DE1 Board ..................................................................................................... 24
4.1
Configuring the Cyclone II FPGA ..................................................................................... 24
4.2
Using the LEDs and Switches............................................................................................ 26
4.3
Using the 7-segment Displays............................................................................................ 30
4.4
Clock Inputs ....................................................................................................................... 31
4.5
Using the Expansion Header.............................................................................................. 32
4.6
Using VGA ........................................................................................................................ 36
4.7
Using the 24-bit Audio CODEC ........................................................................................ 38
4.8
RS-232 Serial Port ............................................................................................................. 39
4.9
PS/2 Serial Port .................................................................................................................. 40
4.10
Using SDRAM/SRAM/Flash............................................................................................. 40
Chapter 5 Examples of Advanced Demonstrations ...................................................................... 46
5.1
DE1 Factory Configuration................................................................................................ 46
5.2
Music Synthesizer Demonstration ..................................................................................... 47
5.3
A Karaoke Machine ........................................................................................................... 50
5.4
SD Card Music Player........................................................................................................ 52