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Honored ContributorThanks for the replies. Ack, I hoped this was going to be simple.
Jake, I appreciate the links, they helped me be sure I'm looking at what your referring to. These look like variants of the cable that comes w/ the Neek, which is "male-female". I must lack the imagination to see how to use these to connect 2 devkits together. :) FvM, this image makes HQCD also look male-female: http://www.samtec.com/ftppub/testrpt/tc0350--0332rev03web_qua.pdf I haven't contacted Samtac so maybe you two know that I can special order male-male even if I don't see a pic of it on the site. Regardless, I think your confirmation that they'll all be shorting the power makes me worry about how easy or hard it will be to sever the power connections in the ribbon. --- So... as for using daughter cards to help bridge the connection... So far, I'm tempted by things like: http://www.kanecomputing.co.uk/bitec_hsmc_proto.htm or THDB-HTG (HSMC) http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&no=322 Can you forsee any problems if I use the THDB-HTG w/ some IDE cables and just cut the power connection in the cables? i.e. Is 'IDE' == 'Altera DE1/DE2' == 'standard 40pin', mechanically speaking? I'm still in dev-kit land, so off-the shelf solutions are preferred, even if it limits my performance. -Brian
