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Offline blackbeardTopic starter

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altera de1 fpga
« on: October 22, 2009, 08:10:52 PM »
anyone use these? i had to buy one for my college course which also unfortunately killed my axon budget :(. it's neet that it has an sd slot and 80 i/o pins but i'm thinking it's likely very difficult to use.
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Re: altera de1 fpga
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2009, 12:46:31 AM »
never heard of it can u tell more about it ?
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Re: altera de1 fpga
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2009, 08:17:30 AM »
not this specific model, but I used a smaller board with an Altera FPGA a few years ago.

If you have absolutely no knowledge of hardware design, there is a steep learning curve. But you are following a course on this topic, aren't you?
It's a lot a fun. I looked at your the spec of your board, it's great! You have video output, audio, USB, SD card reader, switches, leds, keyboard and mouse... :o
You can do a lot of fun stuff with this. For instance I made a old school type of video game where you shoot down planes, a friend of mind wrote a gameboy emulator,
possibilities are endless (well, until you hit the logical element limit :p )

it could be used for robotic too. For instance you could synthesize NiOS softcore processors on the FPGA and build a distributed control system.

I want one now!

What did you do with it so far?
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Re: altera de1 fpga
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2009, 11:34:25 AM »
Quote from: chelmi on October 23, 2009, 08:17:30 AM
not this specific model, but I used a smaller board with an Altera FPGA a few years ago.

If you have absolutely no knowledge of hardware design, there is a steep learning curve. But you are following a course on this topic, aren't you?
It's a lot a fun. I looked at your the spec of your board, it's great! You have video output, audio, USB, SD card reader, switches, leds, keyboard and mouse... :o
You can do a lot of fun stuff with this. For instance I made a old school type of video game where you shoot down planes, a friend of mind wrote a gameboy emulator,
possibilities are endless (well, until you hit the logical element limit :p )

it could be used for robotic too. For instance you could synthesize NiOS softcore processors on the FPGA and build a distributed control system.

I want one now!

What did you do with it so far?


we havn't started using them yet but i think the fist lab we do with them is something with the 7 segment displays. they delayed it since nobody wants to buy it since it's $180 with tax.
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Re: altera de1 fpga
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2009, 01:03:14 PM »
If you can get the course material from your teacher, don't miss the opportunity!
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Re: altera de1 fpga
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2009, 06:48:45 PM »
oh ya i got it all available for download online
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