ECAD and Architecture Practical Classes

Assessment

Questions

1. What is the purpose of pin assignments, and why are they necessary?
2. The clock crystal on the tPad is 50MHz. Consider if this was replaced with a 500MHz crystal. Would your design still work? Making reference to the output of your Quartus compilation, explain why this would be the case.
3. Press the button on your board you wired to rst_n, and notice that your program restarts. What happens to the NIOS on the FPGA and the DRAM to cause this outcome?

Ticking Criteria

• Correct answers to the above questions are provided in a written form.
• All exercises are completed according to the specified behaviour.
• A live demonstration of your solutions meeting the ticking criteria for each lablet.
• Your SystemVerilog code needs to be cleanly formatted and commented, with the following header:

Ticking Procedure

1. Give a live demonstration of your solutions meeting the ticking criteria for each lablet.
2. Show your work and answers to the questions (on screen or paper) to one of the demonstrators. They will award you with a tick if the work is up to standard.
3. Print out your final work and add it to your portfolio to be submitted as instructed in the Head of Department Notice. You do not need to get a ticker to sign any printed work.