Specifications

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Creating the Example Design Nios II Hardware Development Tutorial
2. On the Tools menu in the Quartus II software, click Programmer.
The Programmer window appears and automatically displays the
appropriate configuration file (nios2_quartus2_project.sof).
3. Click Hardware Setup in the top-left corner of the Programmer
window to verify your download cable settings. The Hardware
Setup dialog box appears.
4. Select the appropriate download cable in the Currently selected
hardware list. If the appropriate download cable does not appear in
the list, you must first install drivers for the cable.
5. Click Close.
6. Turn on Program/Configure for nios2_quartus2_project.sof (see
Figure 1–18).
7. Click Start. The Progress meter sweeps to 100% as the Quartus II
software configures the FPGA.
Figure 1–18. Quartus II Programmer Window
At this point, the Nios II system is configured and alive in the FPGA, but
it does not yet have a program in memory to execute.
Develop Software Using the Nios II IDE
In this section you start the Nios II integrated development environment
(IDE) and compile a simple C language program. This section presents
only the most basic software development steps to demonstrate software
running on the hardware system you created in previous sections.
f For a complete tutorial on using the Nios II IDE to develop programs,
see the Software Development Tutorial available from the IDE help system.
In this section you perform the following actions: