Specifications

Altera Corporation 1–11
October 2007
Nios II Hardware Development Tutorial Creating the Example Design
2. “Analyze System Requirements” on page 1–12.
3. “Start the Quartus II Software and Open the Tutorial Example
Design Project” on page 1–12.
4. “Create a New SOPC Builder System” on page 1–14.
5. “Define the System in SOPC Builder” on page 1–15.
6. “Integrate the SOPC Builder System into the Quartus II Project” on
page 1–28.
7. “Download Hardware Design to Target FPGA” on page 1–33.
8. “Develop Software Using the Nios II IDE” on page 1–34.
9. “Run the Program” on page 1–38.
Install the Design Files
Before you proceed, you must install the Quartus II software and the
Nios II Embedded Design Suite. You must also download tutorial design
files from the Altera web site. The design files provide a ready-made
Quartus II project to use as a starting point. The design files are associated
with the link to this document on the Nios II literature page at
www.altera.com/literature/lit-nio2.jsp.
Perform the following steps to set up the design environment:
1. Locate the zipped design files on the Altera web site. A different set
of design files exists for each Altera Nios development board.
2. Download the design files by performing one of the following steps:
a. If you have a Nios development board, download the files that
match your development board.
b. If you have a custom board, download the files that most
closely match your board. For example, if your board has a
StratixII device, download the StratixII design files
(NiosII_stratixII_2s60_es.zip).
c. If you do not have a board, you can use any of the design files.
3. Unzip the contents of the zip file to a directory on your computer.
Do not use spaces in the directory path name.