User guide

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EPXA1 Development Kit Getting Started User Guide Getting Started
Figure 1. HyperTerminal Window
1 If you need to re-load the EPXA1 Board Diagnostics program
onto the board, the design is located on the Excalibur Device
Applications CD-ROM.
Design Overview
The Hello World project includes a simple PLD design and an embedded
software application.
The PLD design consists of a memory-mapped slave peripheral that
accepts 8-bit data. The data lights up corresponding LEDs on the EPXA1
development board. The embedded software program writes a data
pattern to the slave peripheral to scroll the LEDs and also print the data
pattern to a terminal window.