Daily Update – Day 10

– Experimented in the Eclipse IDE for software development to a Nios® II soft core processor. Some of the experiments were:

• File creation. Which files are created upon project creation and compilation, when they are created, what is the purpose of each file.
• Interface navigation.
• Effects of settings on the IDE interface and in the software development.

– Watched online tutorials for software development in the Eclipse IDE:

• “Hello World on your FPGA”. This tutorial shows how to print a “hello world” message on the LCD screen of the FPGA through programming in VHDL for a simple Nios® II soft core processor designed with the SOPC builder. Link for this tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBknFw511s0&list=LL48speL6HPyLooIqQOEFQ4Q&index=3
• “My First Nios II tutorial part 1”. This tutorial shows how to design a simple Nios® II soft core processor with the SOPC builder software and download it into an FPGA. The tutorial is helpful because the SOPC builder software and the Qsys software installed in the laboratory computer are similar . Link for this tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBkza5-SlqQ
• “My first Nios II part 2”. This tutorial shows how to develop code for a simple Nios® II soft core processor and download the code in the FPGA configured with the simple Nios® II. The template code for the “hello word” message is altered to blink some LEDs on the FPGA and then downloaded into the on-chip memory of the Nios® II soft core processor within the FPGA.