Enhancing Education with Altera's Technology and Teaching Materials
This workshop introduces Altera's technology and teaching materials developed specifically for use in Digital Logic and Computer Organization courses. We will give an overview of Altera's FPGA technology, and its application in an educational setting. We will concentrate on the use of Quartus II software and a hardware platform based on Altera's DE1/DE2 boards. Participants will have an opportunity to implement logic circuits on these boards, which were designed for use in educational environments.
We will demonstrate how Quartus II CAD software can be used to design and implement logic circuits that can be downloaded onto a DE1/DE2 board. The discussion will include the use of debugging facilities included in Quartus II software, such as the RTL (Register Transfer Level) Viewer and the SignalTap II Embedded Logic Analyzer.
Next, we will discuss how a computer system can be implemented on the DE1/DE2 board. This involves using the System-on-Programmable-Chip (SOPC) Builder tool and the Nios II soft-core processor. We will show how application programs written in either the Nios II assembly language or the C programming language can be compiled, downloaded and run. This will be done with the Altera Monitor Program, which provides the facilities for implementation and debugging of application programs.
If attendees wish to use their own laptops during the workshop, then they should download and install software found at www.altera.com prior to the tutorial. In particular, attendees should download and install:
- Quartus II 9.0 web edition
- Nios II Embedded Design Suite 9.0
- Altera Monitor Program
The first two packages are available in the Download Center, which has a link at the top right corner of www.altera.com. The Altera Monitor Program is available as part of the University Program Design Suite. It can be found by clicking on the Downloads link at the top right corner of this page.
We will provide Altera DE1 boards for use in the hands-on part of the tutorial.
At the end of the tutorial we will give away Altera DE1 boards to professors and instructors who attend the session.
Course Details:
| Date: | Saturday, December 12, 2009 |
| Time: | 9:30am to 4:30pm (with a 1hr lunch break) |
| Location: | University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| Cost: | Free |
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