1. Altera’s Excalibur Development System Tyson Hall School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology

2. Terms Altera: The Company Excalibur: The 114 Quartus II: The Software Nios: The Processor APEX: The main CPLD

3. Hardware Design Flow Quartus II Run MegaWizard Plug-In Manager Select SOPC Builder SOPC Builder Design Nios processor Quartus II Make pin assignments Write supporting VHDL modules Compile, simulate and download design

4. Software Design Flow Programming Editor Write C code to run on Nios processor (or, write ASM code to run on Nios processor) Cygwin / BASH / Nios SDK Shell Compile C code Download C code to board via 9-pin serial cable Use terminal to interact with the Nios processor

5. 32-bit Reference Design

6. Starting the Wizard 1 2 3

7. Altera SOPC Builder – Reference Design

10. Altera SOPC Builder

11. Directory Structure $SOPC = $ALTERA\Excalibur\sopc_builder_2_5 Nios Documentation $SOPC\documents Nios Examples $SOPC\examples\vhdl\

12. Directory Structure The Wizard Creates... $PROJECT\cpu_sdk\inc $PROJECT\cpu_sdk\lib $PROJECT\cpu_sdk\src

13. Options, Options, Options... CPU SRAM-based CPLD (Temporary) EEPROM-based CPLD (Persists) Software / Code RAM Flash Flash, but run from RAM

14. CPU Use SRAM-based CPLD (Temporary) Pressing Clear restarts the code/CPU Pressing Reset is a “hard” reset

15. Software / Code RAM nios-build [filename].c nios-run [filename].srec Flash See Nios 2.0 Tutorial Flash, but run from RAM See Nios 2.0 Tutorial Use srec2flash

16. Help!!! Go to www.altera.comwww.altera.com  Support  Solutions Database For the srec2flash white paper, go to the Solutions Database and search for “srec2flash”.