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16 years ago

communication between Cyclone III and MAX II in Cyclone III development kit

Hello, We are working on Cyclone III 120 dev. kit. I could not figure it out from the reference manual about communication facility between MAXII and Cyclone III devices. my task is to im...
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16 years ago

Even though I reprogram MAXII, following is the pin configuration between MAXII and CycloneIII

8 Bidirectional pins,

4 output from MAXII and Input to CycloneIII (Jtag pins)

to access the FTDI, I need to assert WR# and RD# signals from FPGA where my logic resides. And, I doubt any provision for that.

I am thinking of to return the dev. kit to Altera, and probably go with my current CycloneII kit and get a um245r dip module (http://www.ftdichip.com/products/evaluationkits/um245r.htm) from FTDI.