I got an Altera DE1 board several years ago, and it has not been doing much other than collecting dust since.
I suspect there are a lot of other people in a similar situation, and hope this repo eventually will be 'pull&play'
#My setup
- Centos 6 64 bit runing in a VirtualBox
- Quartus II 64-bit version 13.0 SP1 - this is the last version of Quartus supporting the FPGA in the Altera DE1. Should be available from http://dl.altera.com/13.0sp1/?edition=web
This setup is choosen as it seems to be the path of least resistance. I want to learn VHDL, not necessarily become a Quartus expert..
#Tips & Tricks
- USB-Blaster issues
run ./altera/13.0sp1/quartus/bin/jtagd --foreground --debug
before starting Quartus
#Links & Resources
- The CD ROM
- VHDl tutorial from Altera tailored for the DE1 board - ftp://ftp.altera.com/up/pub/Altera_Material/13.0/Laboratory_Exercises/Digital_Logic/DE1/vhdl/
- Free Altera training, VHDL Basics (OHDL1110)
- http://wl.altera.com/education/training/courses/OHDL1110 /
- http://wl.altera.com/customertraining/webex/VHDL/presentation.html
- VHDL Beautifier, Formatter - great for reading code from others