FlightPGA2

Implementing a flight simulator (term used loosely...) in FPGA on the DE1-SoC: this time with help of Nios II!

This is a continuation/rewrite of the first version of the project: FlightGPA, where we tried to do the project in Verilog only.

Dependencies/Platform

Big thanks to glm (OpenGL Mathematics library) licensed under the MIT license, without which this project would not be possible.

Targeted for/tested using:

• Quartus Prime 18.1
• Python 3.10.2
• C99 + C++14 standards
• glm 1.0.2 commit ab913bbdd0bd10462114a17bcb65cf5a368c1f32
• Ubuntu 22.04

File organization

• fpga/: Quartus project for running on FPGA: edited version of "DE1-SoC Computer System"
• software/: C/C++ code for running on Nios II core
• bsp/: board support package for Nios II core
• host/: Python code and data on the host computer, i.e. to provide interface to USB joystick

Patches required

• glm needs to be patched using glm_PR1264_fix_uninitialized_in_constexpr_warning.patch taken from unmerged PR
• nios2eds/bin/gnu/nios2-elf/include/c++/5.3.0/bits/random.tcc needs to be patched by turning all std::max(<constant>, ... ) calls into std::max((double)<constant>, ...)

Team

• Joe Dai
• Swarnava Ghosh