User guide

Chapter 6: Board Test System 6–9
Using the Board Test System
September 2010 Altera Corporation Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit User Guide
The Graphic LCD Tab
The Graphic LCD tab allows you to write to the LCD on your board. Figure 6–3
shows the Graphic LCD tab.
The following section describes the controls on the Graphic LCD tab.
Graphics LCD
The Graphics LCD controls allow you to display Bitmap Image File (.bmp) on the
graphic LCD on your board:
■ Select File—opens the browser window to allow you to select a .bmp file to
upload.
■ Load—displays the selected .bmp file on the graphic LCD.
1 The graphic LCD supports only 128x64 size .bmp files. There are three sample .bmp
files located in <install
dir>\kits\cycloneIII_3c120_dev\examples\board_test_system directory.
Figure 6–5. The Graphic LCD Tab