Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition - Manual (Page 47)

Altera Corporation Development Board Version 1.0. 7–1
July 2010 Preliminary Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition
7. Example Software
Applications
About the
Software
Applications Software developers can use the provided software applications to see
examples of software drivers for the various hardware peripherals on the
Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition. The kit
contains several system designs:
■ Altera Application Selector with Embedded Web Server
1
You can locate the system designs in the
altera
\<version>\kits\cycloneIII_3C120_embedded\
folder in examples directory. You will also find more
system designs from
www.altera.com/esdk
About the
Application
Selector The application selector is the default utility that boots up on power up.
This software application runs on the Nios II 3C120 Microprocessor
System with LCD Controller.
Based on processor system
Nios II 3C120 Microprocessor System LCD Controller
Location
<install dir>/examples/application_selector
Description
LCD Color Touch Panel controller, Ethernet controller and SD Card
controller based processor system for LCD Color touch panel control,
in-system update using SD Card, remote system update using Ethernet.
The application selector illustrates several aspects of software
development:
■ Interfacing to the LCD touch panel
■ Interfacing to the SD Card using the FAT file system
■ Implementing a HTTP web server application using the sockets
interface of NicheStack TCP/IP Network Stack, Nios II Edition
■ Implementing remote system update over Ethernet
■ Managing multiple FPGA configurations from Flash
■ Using the MicroC/OS-II real time operating system