how to use SignalTap to slow the clock of DE2

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i am just wondering if any one may have an idea how to slow down 50MHZ clock in DE2 board to 1HZ , by using SignalTap

[Altera_Forum]

Signaltap is not used for clock operations. Why do You want 1Hz clock? Use clock enables for such slow signals.

[Altera_Forum]

thank you so much for the reply, i am trying to monitor some LEDs in DE2 board butwith such frequency 50 Mhz, it is not possible to trace them, how could i use signal enable to be able to observe the chnages in LEDs

[Altera_Forum]

50MHz LED is too fast for human vision. you need a counter on 50MHz to generate a ON/OFF switch (call it enable) for some time (e.g. .5 sec ON, .5 OFF). use module 2 counter (2^27 will then overflow in about 2.7 sec, 2^27/50M), you can then use any siutable counetr MSB as LED switch. 

 Just curiosity: 2^100 on your clock will overflow in 8 years. 2^200 in many many trillions years

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thank you so much for the reply, what you suggest me to do, is to use a counter on 50Mhz to generate ON/OFF switch, my question is, as i wrote my VHDL codes and i alreday downloaded it in the DE2 Board and it works fine with using one push botton as clock, i could use external clock, but how to implement the counter circuit, would it be in the same VHDL program , or it could be different circuit ,, 

thank you so much

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I would offer to learn how to construct a sentence in english. Then a question in english and finally, ask here what You want. because I don't understand the question.

[Altera_Forum]

I don't quite get the point. You certainly need to add to your existing code and redownload it to fpga. 

 all you need is this:  signal count : unsigned(26 downto 0); ..... process begin if rising_edge(clk) then count <= count + 1; end if; end process; led_sw = count(26); -- or 25 etc

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thank you so much for the reply, i will try to add this process to my program and see the result and let you know, 

thank you so much