DE0-Nano

DE0-Nano

FPGA Development and Education Board

Status

• got DE0-NANO-G-Sensor installed and working
• Control Panel code loads but there doesn't seem to be a Linux interface to it. Wine reports trouble communicating to the board

Observations

• Use Windows if you have the choice. It appears much of the GUI functionality is not supported in Linux
• It appears that Wine is running underneath the Linux port

Installation in Bodhi Linux 2.4 (Ubuntu 12.04 derivative) 32 bit

• Install Quartus II Web Edition
  • v.14 is 64 bit only. v. 13.1 installs in 32 bit
  • Change reference to bash in setup.sh to point to /usr/bash
• Install demos and control panel
• Follow step 5 here to enable usb blaster

Getting Help

• To get the help menu of quartus II to work, use Firefox and make sure Flash is installed.
  • The tutorials are automatically loading in FF...not sure why. Perhaps there is a default set in my window manager of which I am unaware
  • Tried with direct load in Chromium to local file link --- endless loop

References

• DE0 Nano Introduction
• http://chehsunliu.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/install-altera-quartus-12-1-in-ubuntu-12-04/
• Forum with tips on getting started
• Verilog tutorials and examples
• Cool Simple FPGA projects (Verilog)