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Chapter 4

tPad Demonstrations

This chapter gives detailed description of the provided bundles of exclusive demonstrations

implemented on tPad. These demonstrations are particularly designed (or ported) for tPad, with the

goal of showing the potential capabilities of the kit and showcase the unique benefits of

FPGA-based SOPC systems such as reducing BOM costs by integrating powerful graphics and

video processing circuits within the FPGA.

4.1

4.1 System Requirements

System Requirements

To run and recompile the demonstrations, you should:

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Install Altera Quartus II 10.0 and NIOS II EDS 10.0 or later edition on the host computer

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Install the USB-Blaster driver software. You can find instructions in the tutorial “Getting

Started with Altera’s DE2-115 Board” (tut_initialDE2-115.pdf) which is available on the

DE2-115 system CD

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Copy the entire demonstrations folder from the tPad system CD to your host computer

4.2

4.2 Factory Configuration

Factory Configuration

The tPad development kit comes preconfigured with a default utility that boots up on power on and

allows users to quickly select, load, and run different Ready-to-Run demonstrations stored on an SD

Card using the tPad touch panel. Figure 4-1 gives a snapshot of the default application selector

interface (Note*). Every demonstration consists of a FPGA hardware image and an application

software image. When you select a demonstration the application selector copies the hardware

image to EPCS device and software image to flash memory and reconfigures the FPGA with your

selection. For more comprehensive information of the application selector factory configuration,

please refer to chapter 5.

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