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The Labs have been designed to be undertaken in conjunction with the ECAD and Computer Design courses for Pat IB students. They
require knowledge gained from those courses - mostly in Verilog and MIPS Assembler. It is strongly recommended that you look over
the Labs before attending them, since you will only have a fixed amount of time with a demonstrator present
to complete the practical.
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The Altera DE2 Development and Education Board
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The DE2 Board is based around an Altera Cyclone II FPGA. Unlike the previous board used in the ECAD labs, this one does not include
a processor. Instead, in the 2nd lab, you will be making use of a soft-processor, which will be introduced during your Computer
Architecture lectures.
The board also has many additional features, such as audio in/out and microphone ports, a serial interface, 2 general-purpose
IO headers, 512 Kb of SRAM memory, and 4MB of flash. Details of these and the rest of the components can also be found in the
user manual.
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