Resources

General:

Altera's website contains a wealth of information for Nios 2 and the various tools which you will be using in this course.

Main page for all Nios 2 related documentation:

http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-nio2.jsp

Quartus 2 documentation on Altera's website:

http://www.altera.com/literature/lit-qts.jsp

The University Program of Altera provides more answers to DE 2 board at:

http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/boards/unv-de2-board.html

See many design examples at the University Program main page:

http://www.altera.com/education/univ/unv-index.html

Forums:

The Nios Forum is a very good place to discuss your queries and see various other projects which people are doing. You can contribute to the development and find answers to some problems. You can even download the eCos Real Time Operating System for FREE from there which can run on Nios 2 and DE 2 board.

For questions specific to DE 2 board, you can go to the board manufacturer's (Terasic) website:

http://de2.terasic.com

On this website, you will find crucial updates to the demos provided to you with the CD. Further, you can go to the DE 2 forum and see questions related specifically to the DE 2 board. People respond on this forum very quickly. You can even see our course listed along with GeorgiaTech who are using the DE 2 board.

Papers:

This is a good paper discussing web server design on embedded systems:

http://jenet.mit.bme.hu/dls/jenet_design_v1r0.PDF

and a survey on embedded linux operating system:

http://www.bluemug.com/research/els/els.pdf

There are some other universities who are doing similar courses in Embedded Design:

Georgia Tech:

http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/DE2/

Cornell:

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ece576/

Yale:

http://www.eng.yale.edu/enalab/courses/eeng460a/