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CHAPTER 2
GETTING STARTED
In this chapter, step-by-step instructions show you how to connect the Cyclone EP to a power supply and download
and execute an example program. This chapter describes Intel’s software development tools, the MON960 Debug
Monitor, software installation and hardware configuration.
2.1 PRE-INSTALLATION CONSIDERATIONS
This section provides a general overview of the components required to develop and execute a program
on the Cyclone EP. The MON960 Debug Monitor User’s Guide (order number 484290) fully describes
several of these components, including MON960 commands, Host Debugger Interface Library (HDIL)
and the MONDB.EXE utility.
2.1.1 Software Development Tools
The Cyclone EP supports many software development tools
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. The installation instructions presented in
this chapter were verified using GNU/960 and CTOOLS960 — Intel’s i960
®
processor software
development tools. Advanced C-language compilers for the i960 processor family are available for
DOS-based systems and a variety of UNIX workstation hosts. These products provide execution
profiling and instruction scheduling optimizations and also provide an assembler, linker and utilities
designed for embedded processor software development.
The instructions in this section explain how to compile, link and execute an example program. If you are
using other software development tools, read through this example to gain a general understanding of
how to use your tools with this board.
2.1.2 MON960 Debug Monitor
The Cyclone EP is equipped with Intel’s MON960 — an on-board software monitor which allows you
to execute and debug programs written for i960 processors. The monitor provides program download,
breakpoint, single step, memory display and other useful functions for running and debugging a
program.
The Cyclone EP works with source-level debuggers, such as the DB960 and GDB960. The source-level
debugger must support the Host Debugger Interface Library (HDIL) defined by MON960.
1. Refer to Intel’s Solutions960
®
catalog for a complete list of i960 processor software development and debug tools.
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