Altera MAX II - Manual (Page 34)

2–26 Development Kit Version 1.1.0 Altera Corporation
MAX II Development Kit Getting Started User Guide July 2005
Reference Designs
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For a detailed explanation of the controller functionality, see White Paper:
MAX II Development Board LCD Controller.
1 The Slot Game Reference Design has added an extra bit to the
bus
input of the LCD controller. It is used to vary the speed of
transactions to the LCD display. For more information on this bit
and its functionality, refer to the lcd_controller.v file in the Slot
Game Reference Design Quartus II Project.
Reset Functionality
At any point during game play, pressing the Reset button (S5) will cycle
the board power, stop the game, and reload the design’s programming
file (.pof) into the SRAM (volatile) portion of the MAX II device via the
Configuration Flash Memory. After the file has been reloaded, all
registers are restored to their default value and the design returns to its
initial introduction display.
Reference Design 3: PCI Reference Design
The PCI Reference Design provides an example of how users can
interface the MAX II development board to a PC via the PCI expansion
slots. The design uses Altera’s PCI T32 MegaCore function to interface to
the PCI Bus of any standard PC. All design files are provided in the
<root>/HW/Examples/ReferenceDesigns/PCI_Reference
Design/QuartusProject/DesignFiles
directory.
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The MAX II PCI demo shows a simple example of how to
generate interrupts. When a user presses one of the switches, an
interrupt is generated. In a PCI system, the interrupts are shared
between many devices. Special care is required that the user
does not press a switch unless the MAX II PCI application is
active.
Using the Reference Design
1. Program the MAX II device with the PCI_RefDesign.pof file. (Refer
to
“Programming the MAX II Device” on page 2–4 for details on
how to load POF files into the MAX II device.)
2. Register the drivers:
a. Open a command prompt (DOS window).
b. CD to the <root>/Examples/HW/ReferenceDesigns/
PCI_ReferenceDesign/Win2k_XP_Drivers
directory.