de1-soc

experiments with de1-soc: custom digital hardware driven from ARM running linux (custom device drivers)

folder structure

• rtl: contains hdl files describing the custom component we want to drive from the ARM

• my_first_HPS: the files needed to generate a system containing ARM and the custom component (using Altera qsys)

• linux_utilities: an image file of the linux bootloader for ARM Cortex-A9, and a script which can be used to program the FPGA directly from the ARM running Linux (requires .rbf file)

• linux_software: contains C code which can be compiled for the ARM running Linux, together with a device driver enabling a task from user space to access the custom component

• bare_metal_software: contains C code accessing the custom component from the ARM without the Linux OS

instruction to setup linux

look in the file README_CONFIG_LINUX