Links

• Cornell staff-maintained pages
  • Final Projects and some ideas
  • DE2 hardware examples
  • NiosII assembler examples
  • NiosII GCC examples
  • NiosII MicroC/OS examples
  • FPGA as an Digital Differential Analyzer (Analog Computer)
  • DSP on FPGA
  
  
• ALTERA Literature and DE2 resources
  • QUARTUS II design software
  • VERILOG in QUARTUS II, Simulation, Timing, SignalTap
  • Memory Init File (mif) format
  • Recommended HDL style
    • Synchronous one-read, one-write, 2-port memory 6-16
    • Synchronous two-read, one-write, 3-port memory 6-19
    • Synchronous ROM, 6-23
    • Tristate devices 6-36, Do not use for internal signals. 6-36
    • Latches 6-40
  • System on a programmable chip (SOPC) builder
  • Megafunctions
  • DE2 prototype board
    • DE2 CDROM zip version 1.5 (Altera link)
    • DE2 datasheets
    • PIN assignment csv file
    • Top level Verilog shell
    • DE2 resources (Hamblen, GATech)
      • DE2 schematic
    • Terasic (makes the DE2)
      • Web server Appnote
      • DE2 FPGA pin assignment
    • DE2 tutorials and exercises
      • Verilog
      • library modules
      • simulation
      • SOPC builder
      • SDRAM
      • DE2_WEB zip and appnote from Terasic
  • NiosII
    • NiosII IDE
    • NiosII processor
    • Software Development Handbook
    • NiosII tutorial
    • Nios Forum
    • Nios Wiki
    • Software design examples
    • Hardware Development Tutorial
    • Debug Client
    • Design Contest winners (pdf)
    • multiprocessor
    • floating point
    • implementing in SOPC
  • CycloneII FPGA specs, details
  • Other courses using Altera for SOPC
    • GeorgiaTech, Hamblen, instructional materials
    • UIUC ECE598 SOC
    • UMass Amherst ECE354
      • labs
      • links
• NiosII Operating systems and Languages
  • lcc, the retargetable C compiler
  • Nios microCLinux and Wiki
  • MicroC/OS RTOS
    • Book by Labrosse
    • on NiosII
    • Nios source code (NOT NiosII)
    • introduction (Tei-Wei Kuo, National Taiwan University)
    • introduction Zworld
    • API summary and another summary
    • Complete API
    • RTOS introduction (KTH)
  • KROS Real-Time Suite for the Altera Nios
  • RTEMS Wiki and home page
  • FreeRTOS Wiki and home page
  • HAL introduction (KTH)
  • newlib C-library
  
  
• CPU and IP cores
  • opencores.org
  • fpgacpu.org and links
  • One Instruction machines
    • P-URISC one instruction ISA and VHDL
    • Ultimate RISC
    • Six different machines
    • Wikipedia
  • Evaluation of Synthesizable cores
  • Microarchitecture of FPGA based soft processors
  • Soft Core Processors and Embedded Processing: a survey and analysis
  • A Study of the Speedups and Competitiveness of FPGA Soft Processor
  • RISC16 (Bruce Jacob, UMD)
  • WISC-SP06 (CS/ECE552 Wisconsin)
  • DLX/MIPS ( Trinity College Dublin, Jeremy Jones )
  • DLXview (Purdue)
  • System-on-chip (Jan Gray)
    • CircuitCellar #116
    • CircuitCellar #117
    • CircuitCellar #118
    • CircuitCellar background
    • Teaching with FPGAs
  • Synthesizable MIPS core in verilog (MIT SCALE group)
  • MIPS core (Lafayette, ECE313)
  • Kraken 16-bit RISC (Stanford) and other past projects
  • 16-bit RISC (ECE813 MSU)
  • DFT IP generator (CMU, Peter A. Milder for the SPIRAL Project )
  • Software radio (Altera)
  • Software radio (Virginia Polytech, John C. Davies IV)
  • AIZUP 8-bit core (FCCM 1996) 1998 datapath and VHDL: single cycle, fetch/execute, pipelined, plus assembler def
  • Eclectic list of computer architectures David Cary
  • FPGApple
  • FPGA for Fun -- Digital Scope
  • RetroMicro FPGA
  • CD16 soft CPU
  • EE475 (my 1998 version)

• Verilog
  • verilog.org
  • verilog.net
  • verilog.com and IEEE standard
  • Synthesizable Verilog Examples
  • Verilog manual (CSCI320, Bucknell)
  • Verilog tutorial (asic-world)
  • Reference manual ( Rajeev Madhavan, Automata Publishing )
  • Quick Reference (Sutherland HDL)
  • Verilog synthesis methodology (Finbarr O’Regan (finbarr@ee.ucd.ie))
  • Verilog HDL coding (Freescale)
  • Altera Design Examples
  • Binary to BCD converter

• General design information
  • Proverbs and quotations
  • It’s Time to Stop Calling Circuits “Hardware”
  • John Kent's FPGA page
  • Teaching with FPGAs (Edwards, Columbia)
    • glossy version
    • student projects 2005, 2004
    • 2006 class
      
  • DSP/math
    • Andraka Consulting Group, CORDIC, modulation, radar on-a-chip
    • Chirp Z transform
    • FFT on FPGA
    • Fast Hartley Transform
  • Video/Graphics
    • Video Chips
    • Using the MC6847 Video Controller (MIT)
    • MC6847 data sheet
    • ELM data sheet
    • NTE879 RGB encoder
    • SAA1101 synch generator
    • TDA8501 PAL/NTSC encoder
    • MC13077 encoder
    • AD722 encoder
    • LM1881 sync separator (national) and EL1881 synch separator (intersil)
    • TV tutorials
    • TinyGL graphics package
      
  • Analog, Analog to Digital, and D to A
    • Practical Analog Design (from Circuit Cellar)
    • Guide to instrumentation amplifier design (analog devices)
    • Single power supply opamp circuits (TI)
    • Micropower circuts (Linear Technology)
    • Single supply amplifier (EDN)
    • Discover Circuits
    • Analog-input circuit serves any microcontroller (EDN magazine12/20/2001)
    • National Semiconductor
      • Document library
      • OpAmps / LowPower opamps
      • WebBench
    • Texas Instruments
      • Technical Documents
      • Differential amplifiers
      • OpAmp application notes
      • Circuit simulation software
    • Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim
      • EEducation
      • Tutorials
      • Application notes
      • OpAmp design guide (glossy)
    • Field-programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA)
      • Servenger PAM
      • Anadigm FPAA