Altera Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit Cyclone III Edition User Manual
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Altera Corporation
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Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition
Getting Started
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Communication Interface controllers
About the Nios II System Designs
A Nios II system design builds upon a Nios II processor system by
including a software application that runs on the processor system.
Software developers can use system designs to see examples of software
drivers for the hardware peripherals. Nios II Embedded Evaluation kit
contains several system design examples:
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Altera Application Selector
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Altera Picture Viewer
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Altera Mandelbrot C2H
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Designs are located in the altera\<version
#>\kits\cycloneIII_3c25_niosII in either the examples or
demonstrations directory. You can also find more system
designs from the
.
About the Demonstrations
In the Nios II I Embedded Evaluation Kit directory, there is a demos
folder (refer to
Figure 1–1 on page 1–8
). This is a repository of pre-built
example Nios II based processor systems that have been provided for
demonstration and evaluation purposes only.
How are the demonstrations different from design examples?
Design examples (located in the <Install Dir>\examples folder) are
prebuilt processor systems that can be used as a starting point for your
design.
1.
Hardware Design Examples: Quartus II projects with pre-generated
SOPC Builder systems featuring the Nios II processor (for example,
standard)
2.
System Design Examples: These build upon hardware design
examples and include applications and source codes that show
examples of software device drivers, operating system usage, and
application selector.
Demonstrations
(located in <Install Dir>\demos directory) are
pregenerated SOPC Builder systems for evaluation purposes only and are
not guaranteed to be updated with each release of the Quartus II
software. When source-code is provided, recompiling a demonstration
application from this directory may or may not work with the Quartus II