Anyone else using the Stratix II DSP Kit?

Altera_Forum · ‎10-03-2005

Hi all, I have a Stratix II DSP kit that I will use to test out some DSP algorithms. However, first I want to boot a NIOS processor and get the simple socket server test running. I want to be able to transfer the results of a test over ethernet to a control computer.

The DSP kit does not ship with a 'standard' reference design, so it looks like I'll have to start with the NIOS II/Stratix II development kit reference design, and adjust pin assignments. The DSP kit ships with a 100MHz clock, so I figure I'll use the PLL to reduce it to 50MHz.

Anyone else already dealt with these issues?

Regards,

Dave Hawkins.

Caltech.

Altera_Forum · ‎10-05-2005

Hello Dave,

Which version of CD do you have with your DSP kit? On StratixII_DSP_Kit-v1.1.0 CD I have all reference designs: fast, full_featured, small, and standard. Maybe you should upgrade your software.

I also just sturted playing with this kit. My idea is to test my cores in FPGA and present the test results on www.

Regards,

Altera_Forum · ‎10-07-2005

Hi,

I am using StratixII-ep2s60-dsp-development-board.

this board is now communicating with vcc++-program over tcp/ip.

nios2 program size is too large(380KB), so it is located in cfi-flash memory.

(i need on-chip memory to design image-processing-ip)

if you have the same problem, you should make the flash_writer_circuit

to download program into flash,

and also you should make "target board" to create actual nios2-cpu.

flash boot address is:

factory: 0x200000

user1 : 0x500000

user2 : 0x800000

user3 : 0xc00000