Stratix Subproject progress (Week 5)

This week was largely spent on attempting to change the pin layouts from the older version to the newer one. The problem was that pins were set to the locations based on the old names in the previous project's version. In the new version, different names were used. Thus, it was necessary to intuitively shift the pin locations to the newer names. This PDF file from Altera's website (especially page 20) served as a guide in determining pin purpose and locations. The Pin Planner in quartus was used to effect the actual changes.

Simon discovered that some of the shared signals were unnecessary, and after the appropriate changes were made in SOPC builder (and after the system was regenerated) the pins were correctly set.

Now, work continues on the software portion of the project, on the C program files.