DE 2 Board

USB USB USB Ethernet

Blaster Devi Host Mic Line Video VGA 10/100M RS-232
Port Port Port In In Out In Port Port Port
9V DC Power
Supply Connector
27 MHz Oscillator
24-bit Audio Codec
Power On/Off Switch PS2 Keyboard/Mouse Port
USB Host/Slave Controller VGA 10-bit DAC
TV Decoder Ethernet 10/100M Controller
(NTSC/PaAL) Expansion Header 2 (JP2)
Altera USB Blaster
Controller Chip Set Expansion Header 1 (JP1)
Altera EPCS16
Configuration Device Altera Cyclone II FPGA
Run/Prog Switch
JTAG/AS mode
16x2 LCD SD Card Slot

7-Segement Displays 8 Green LEDs

18 Red LEDs IrDA Transceiver

SMA External Clock
18 Toggle Switches
4 debounced push-button
50 MHz 4Mx16 256Kx16 4Mx8 switches
Oscillator SDRAM SRAM Flash Memory

DE2 Board Block Diagram

 DE2 Board
Cyclone II EP2C35F672C5 FPGA with 33,216 LE) and 483,840 bits of on-chip memory
EPCS16 serial configuration device
USB Blaster (on board) for programming & user API control; both JTAG and Active serial
256Kx16 SRAM, 4Mx16 SDRAM, 4Mx8 Flash memory
SD Card socket
4 debounced pushbutton switches, 18 toggle switches
18 red user LEDs, 9 green user LEDs
50-MHz oscillator and 27-MHz oscillator for clock sources
24-bit CD-quality audio CODEC (Wolfson WM8731 24-bit sigma-delta)with line-in, line-
out, and microphone-in jacks
VGA DAC (10-bit high-speed triple DACs) with VGA-out connector
TV Decoder (NTSC/PAL) and TV-in connector
10/100 Ethernet Controller with a connector
USB Host/Slave Controller with USB type A and type B connectors
RS-232 transceiver and 9-pin connector
PS/2 mouse/keyboard connector
IrDA transceiver
Two 40-pin Expansion Headers with diode protection

JP1 DE2 Expansion Headers

JP2
JP1 DE2 Expansion Headers

JP2

DE2 Expansion Header Pin Assignments

JP1 JP1 JP2 JP2
GPIO_0[0] PIN_D25 GPIO_0[19] PIN_J24 GPIO_1[0] PIN_K25 GPIO_1[19] PIN_T18
GPIO_0[1] PIN_J22 GPIO_0[20] PIN_H25 GPIO_1[1] PIN_K26 GPIO_1[20] PIN_T21
GPIO_0[2] PIN_E26 GPIO_0[21] PIN_H26 GPIO_1[2] PIN_M22 GPIO_1[21] PIN_T20
GPIO_0[3] PIN_E25 GPIO_1[3] PIN_M23
GPIO_0[22] PIN_H19 GPIO_1[22] PIN_U26
GPIO 0[4]
GPIO_0[4] PIN F24
PIN_F24 GPIO 1[4]
GPIO_1[4] PIN M19
PIN_M19
GPIO_0[23] PIN_K18 GPIO_1[23] PIN_U25
GPIO_0[5] PIN_F23 GPIO_1[5] PIN_M20
GPIO_0[24] PIN_K19 GPIO_1[24] PIN_U23
GPIO_0[6] PIN_J21 GPIO_1[6] PIN_N20
GPIO_0[25] PIN_K21 GPIO_1[25] PIN_U24
GPIO_0[7] PIN_J20 GPIO_1[7] PIN_M21
GPIO_0[8] PIN_F25 GPIO_0[26] PIN_K23 GPIO_1[8] PIN_M24 GPIO_1[26] PIN_R19

GPIO_0[9] PIN_F26 GPIO_0[27] PIN_K24 GPIO_1[9] PIN_M25 GPIO_1[27] PIN_T19

GPIO_0[10] PIN_N18 GPIO_0[28] PIN_L21 GPIO_1[10] PIN_N24 GPIO_1[28] PIN_U20
GPIO_0[11] PIN_P18 GPIO_0[29] PIN_L20 GPIO_1[11] PIN_P24 GPIO_1[29] PIN_U21
GPIO_0[12]
[ ] PIN_G23 GPIO_1[12]
[ ] PIN_R25
GPIO 0[30]
GPIO_0[30] PIN J25
PIN_J25 GPIO 1[30]
GPIO_1[30] PIN V26
PIN_V26
GPIO_0[13] PIN_G24 GPIO_1[13] PIN_R24
GPIO_0[31] PIN_J26 GPIO_1[31] PIN_V25
GPIO_0[14] PIN_K22 GPIO_1[14] PIN_R20
GPIO_0[32] PIN_L23 GPIO_1[32] PIN_V24
GPIO_0[15] PIN_G25 GPIO_1[15] PIN_T22
GPIO_0[33] PIN_L24 GPIO_1[33] PIN_V23
GPIO_0[16] PIN_H23 GPIO_1[16] PIN_T23
GPIO_0[17] PIN_H24 GPIO_0[34] PIN_L25 GPIO_1[17] PIN_T24 GPIO_1[34] PIN_W25

GPIO_0[18] PIN_J23 GPIO_0[35] PIN_L19 GPIO_1[18] PIN_T25 GPIO_1[35] PIN_W23

ECE520/L Tips and Suggestions

1. All project names and file names must NOT contain white spaces.
Example: system 1.bdf file name will result in unpredictable problems!
2. Nios does not automatically detect any changes made in Qsys. If any change is made
in Qsys, you need to regenerate the Board Software Package (BSP). To regenerate,
right click project_bsp in Nios II, and then NIOS II  Generate BSP. Then rebuild the
project.
3. For windows7 or Vista, you must launch Nios II with the administrator privilege. That
is, right-click Nios II and click Run As Administrator.
ttp://www.altera.com/literature/rn/rn_nios2eds.pdf
4. Allocate workspace within the application folders. In other words, each application
has each own workspace. The advantage of having the project and its workspace
under the same folder tree is that when you copy the project, you also copy its
workspace.

Reducing Code Footprint in System on Chip (see n2sw_nii5v2.pdf page 170)

1. Include only peripherals needed by the application/ Eliminate Unused Device Drivers
2. Use polling instead of interrupt-driven
3. Enable Compiler Optimizations for both BSP and application project
4. Use reduced device driver (reduced functionality)
Polled JTAG, UART; No LCD driver
5. Use a Smaller File I/O Library
a. Use the Small newlib C Library
printf(), fprintf(), sprintf(), etc, does not support floating-point values
Not supported: scanf, getchar, LCD, File I/O, buffering, MicroC/OS-II
b. Use UNIX-Style File I/O
Read, write, usleep, …
c. Emulate ANSI C Functions
6. Use the Lightweight Device Driver API
JTAG, UART, LCD with static file descriptors
7. Use the Minimal Character-Mode API (sys/alt_stdio.h)
alt_printf(), alt_putchar(), alt_putstr(), alt_getchar()
8. Eliminate Unneeded Exit Code
9. Turn off C++ Support