FPGA Newbie needs some help.

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Hi all. Just started working hard core on FPGAs for a project but I've come to a standstill. I have a DE2 board and I'd like to implement a small microcontroller core in it, one other than the Nios. So lets say I have the VHDL file for the micro and I can put it in a block diagram, how do I go about getting an assembly or C program to it? Hopefully that's not too vague. TIA

[Altera_Forum]

Since you are using the microcontroller, you should have the link and compile tools to compile the software code into memory files such as the hex file, or the elf file for the flash memory. Then you can implement these memory file into the memory on chip, or the external memory, and read by the CPU.