Board Diagnostic
This example program provides a way to test most of the devices on an Altera®-provided development board. The following are tested:
- Seven-segment display
- D0 to D7 LEDs: The "walking" LED pattern is displayed on these LEDs
- UART test: Tests UART functionality for the UART defined as
STDOUT
- LCD display: Displays a short message on the LCD display
- Memory: Runs memory tests on a user-specified range of memory
- Buttons (SW0 to SW3): Detects button presses in a tight loop and returns any non-zero value
Using This Design Example
To obtain this design example, download a free evaluation version of the Nios® II Embedded Design Suite (EDS). This embedded software example is installed with the Nios II EDS in the <Nios II EDS installation path>/examples/software directory and is available as a Nios II integrated development environment (IDE) project template. The template includes the project settings required to run this design on the supported target hardware configurations. To use this software example, simply create a new C/C++ application project in the IDE and choose the desired project template.
Hardware Requirements
This example requires the following devices to be present in the target hardware design:
- LED programmable I/O (PIO) named
led_pio
- Seven-segment display PIO named
seven_seg_pio
- LCD display named
lcd_display
- Button PIO named
button_pio
- Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) connection (to test the JTAG UART functionality)
You can run this software design example on the following Nios II hardware design examples:
Stratix® and Stratix II Design Examples
Cyclone® Design Examples
- Standard
- Full-featured
- Low cost
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