05-23-2009 02:00 PM
Hello,
I am writing to find out if the lego mindstorm nxt and spartan 3e can work together. Any suggestions about the interface process is much appreciated.
thanks.
05-23-2009 03:59 PM
Could you be more specific in how you want them to work together? Your question isn't detailed enough. Is this for a school project?
Are you trying to exchange information between them? If so, you could probably implement an I2C interface on the spartan and make it look like a sensor to the NXT. There is a series of articles on how the I2C interface on the NXT works and how to program it at
http://www.tau.ac.il/~stoledo/lego/ (there's a 6 part series on it)
05-23-2009 05:06 PM
Thanks. I'm actually using the ultrasonic sensor of the nxt and then comparing some distance. The output of the compare is going to be used to drive the fpga through the expansion connectors which then runs some actuators.
However I'm getting errors saying that the vi is not executable.
Thanks for your help.
05-26-2009 03:01 PM
Hi Olams,
What error are you getting? Is there an error code associated with it?
Thanks,
05-27-2009 10:11 PM
thanks for your help. I've changed the approach to my project and have come upon a new error. Is it possible to perform file operations to the fpga. I am trying to get the spartan 3e fpga to read some data from a file; however, I keep getting a target specific error saying that the operation is not supported.
Are there any alternatives to this approach. Please help.
Thanks.