[chbot] FPGAs again

[Charles Manning]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Volker Kuhlmann
<list0570 at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Sat 23 Jul 2011 16:02:28 NZST +1200, Charles Manning wrote:
>
>> The De0-nano development is done with the Altera tools. There are
>> Linux versions of the FPGA and NIOS IDE. I therefore assume it is
>> possible to do everything under Linux.
>> https://www.altera.com/download/software/quartus-ii-we
>> https://www.altera.com/download/software/nios-ii
>
> Thanks Charles! I found the nios Linux version and thought the C
> compiler for the nios CPU (or whatever they implement) wasn't much use
> without a prior FPGA design... and whatever all those funny names mean,
> "quartus" sounds like 40BC to me ;-)

There are two parts to the operation:

1) Set up an FPGA image.
2) Set up software

>
> I don't care about the terasic demos if it doesn't work.

As far as the tools running on Linux goes, I am not sure what Linuxes
are supported. It might only be RedHat.

>
> I'd be royally interested in their nifty shiny new big colour touchpad
> because I'd have a good use for it, but it's US$170 :-(( so I'll think
> big but start small.
>
>> Personally I think that's a bargain for what you get.
>
> Very much agree, count me in too. It'll get used somehow.
>
> Btw when I was at school 40/3 was more than 10, make sure you don't pay
> more than you share. Happy to send you $$ as soon as you know how much
> it is.
>
> Thanks for organising all this!
>
> Volker
>
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