altera quartus ii logic circuit design software

#Altera quartus ii logic circuit design software how to#

The reason I want to do this is so I can work in schematic mode for a while to see if there are ways to reduce gate count in the design. My ultimate goal is to re-design this entire project using the schematic alone without typing in any VHDL. For some reason I'm just not having any luck connecting individual pins to a bus. I understand electronics and I've worked with many schematic programs in the past so it's not that I don't understand schematics.

#Altera quartus ii logic circuit design software how to#

Well, for one thing, I'd like to learn how to work with the Schematic diagram better. I have a specific goal in mind that I would like to achieve. And then I wanted to modified the schematic, but I'm running into problems there when I tried to break out pins on a bus. I was able to create a schematic file using the original VHDL code. However, in spite of the great success up to this point I still have a lot of things I'm not understanding. In fact, I even modified it some to do a few different things and to my utter shock and amazement even my modifications worked as expected. I typed it all in, complied it, downloaded it onto the board, and it does exactly what it's supposed to do. I've typed in a VHDL hardware description from a YouTube tutorial that uses the same software and the same board I have. I'm hoping to find other hobbyists who could help me learn, or perhaps we could learn together? So far I've installed the software and USB Blaster. The boards I have: FPGA Altera Cyclone II EP2C5 CPLD Altera MAX II EPM240 I'm totally NEW to this so I have almost no clue what I'm doing. I've just downloaded Altrea's Quartus II version 11.1 software to program some Cyclone II FPGA boards I have.