Blog

Subversion useful commands

Subversion is a software versioning and revision control system distributed as free software. Documentation: http://svnbook.red-bean.com Other useful commands: Recursively remove all files in a working copy that are not under version control: svn status | grep ^\? | cut -c9- | xargs –no-run-if-empty -d \\n rm -r Checkout specific files only: svn checkout http://svn.svnhost.com/projectX –depth immediates

Read More

DisplayPort linkup issues

DisplayPort is a license and royalty-free standard designed to provide next-generation high-bandwidth for video and audio capability between video sources and destination sinks. Altera provides a DisplayPort IP MegaCore function which conforms to the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) specification version 1.2a. It supports a scalable main data link of 1, 2, or 4 differential data pairs (lanes) and

Read More

Nios II code blocks on printf statements

Nios II is a 32-bit embedded-processor architecture designed specifically for the Altera family of FPGAs. Having printf() statements in your code sometimes facilitates the debugging effort of your embedded system. However, using printf() statements in an embedded environment without the proper hardware support in your FPGA could be problematic. Specifically, the embedded code could potentially hang/block provided

Read More