– Received a DE1-SoC Development and Education board from Altera. The board contains a Cyclone® V FPGA, model [ 5CSEMA5F31C6N ], and this FPGA has a hard core processor ARM Cortex A9®. One of the next steps should be researching about the hard core processor ARM Cortex A9® and compare it to the soft core processor Nios® II that we have been using.
– Installed the Quarthus® II Web Edition version 14.0 on another computer in the laboratory. The computer that we were working with had shown some problems with the CAD tools, which is the reason to install the tools in another computer, a seemingly less used one. Also we needed the Quarthus® II Web Edition version 14.0 to work with the Cyclone V FPGA in the new DE1-SoC board.
