Getting Started

• Quartus Prime standard edition 15.1 is currently preferred.
• We have a license server for 5 licenses. Use "1800@…" as the license file. Note also that both ports 1800/tcp and 1801/tcp are used for communication with the server, so both must be open in firewalls
• For the Terasic DE0-Nano board, see this page for USB setup details: ​http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2011/9/25/Using-the-terasic-DE0-Nano-on-ubuntu

On-Chip Block Memory

• IP generator for ROM:1-port works with MIF (memory init file) *BUT* you must add the MIF file to the project or it is silently ignored!

Simulation

• Step 1: Ignore all documentation from ALTERA
• Step 3: open your project and go Processing->Start-> Start Analysis & Elaboration
• Step 4: resolve all errors
• Step 5: Tools->Run Simulation Tools->RTL Simulation
• Step 6: Now Modlesim is open; click around until you find the transcript terminal, now you can type the following: cd <your working directory>

#make the work library vlib work

#compile all the files vcom file1.vhdl vcom file2.vhdl

#or if you have verilog vlog file3.v

#now start a simulation vsim my_top_level

• Step 7: Now you should get a list of signals which you can force via the GUI or by shell commands
• Step 8: In Objects you need to select all the signals you want to see and then right click -> add wave
• Step 9: Now go to town with tcl! #run it for some time run 1 us

#start simulation over restart -f

Programming (remotely)

These are instructions on how to plug in the USB-Blaster cable on computer A, and use this from computer B

Computer A must already have Altera's Quartus or QuartusProgrammer? packages installed

• Step 1: On computer A, do a "sudo killall jtagd" to remove all instances of the jtag server.
• Step 2: On computer A, run "jtagconfig" to start the local programming server.
• Step 3: On computer B, do a "sudo killall jtagd" to remove all instances of the jtag server (really important!)
• Step 4: on computer B, setup an ssh tunnel to computer A to forward port 1309 from localhost on B to localhost on A ssh -v -N -L 1309:localhost:1309 user@computerA
• Step 5: Run quartus as normal on computer B. You have now tricked it to use the tunneled jtagd.