Altera Cyclone IV PC to control Altera chip

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Hi,

I bought Altera board (development) DE2-115

In the example CD - there is a very nice PC application with UI - when pressing buttons-> altera board light leds, show LCD when you write in PC etc.

I would like to develop myself FORM (C sharp or visual C) that will control my board (at first light leds by the button I am pressing for example)

Unfortunately there are no any sources, furthermore I contact terasic (board manufacture) and they don’t give any code or sources.

After some searches I have found that Altera board uses USB chip of Cypress which uses FTDI driver.

So now I know I need:

  1. write PC code - that uses FTDI DLL to transfer data to board.

  2. The FTDI DLL

  3. Altera code to identify commands

Now the only example is with Verilog, and NIOS II - SOCP, and Eclipse.

But I would like to read the chip JTAG inputs with some VHDL code

Is any one familiar how to start doing this, or have any example (VHDL is preferred)?

Any help will help :slight_smile:

Thanks,

Roee