de2-115-virtual-input

Virtual GUI for controlling the Altera DE2-115 board.

The program will generate signals for serial communication.

Also included in the repository files are implementations of an input signal multiplexer via Arduino Uno and a Verilog sample module using the board's 14-pin connector.

Prerequisites

• python 3
• tkinter
• serial

Running

python3 de2_115_gui.py

Note: the python3 command may be named just python in your environment.

Setting default serial port and camera

To list only one specific device, change the constant DEFAULT_DEVICE to the name of the port in "/dev/ttyXXXX" format. Determine XXXX by running dmesg | grep tty.

To determine a default camera device modify the launch_camera() function to launch guvcview -d /dev/videoX. Determine X by running v4l2-ctl --list-devices.

Compiling

python3 -m PyInstaller --onefile --add-data "img/:img/" de2-115-gui.py

Milestones

• Button and switch GUI
• Basic button press functions
• Power switch with a 30 second press interval
• Press and release bindings for the push buttons
• Event receiver on the FPGA
• Encode signal events on Arduino
• Connect GUI to Arduino
• Timer for turning off and cooling FPGA