User manual

DE2 User Manual
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7. The Control Panel is now ready for use; experiment by setting the value of some 7-segment
display and observing the result on the DE2 board.
Figure 3.1. Quartus II Programmer window.
Figure 3.2. The DE2 Control Panel.
The concept of the DE2 Control Panel is illustrated in Figure 3.3. The IP that performs the control
functions is implemented in the FPGA device. It communicates with the Control Panel window,
which is active on the host computer, via the USB Blaster link. The graphical interface is used to
issue commands to the control circuitry. The provided IP handles all requests and performs data
transfers between the computer and the DE2 board.