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Honored ContributorSteve, I ended up just buying 2 Terasic daughter cards & using IDE (40pin) ribbon cable to selectively connect the IO I wanted. The cables are easy to shorten and reorder/cut traces.
Eg: http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=67&no=218 or http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=67&no=322 They're $50/$55 each, and that was good enough for what I needed (& avoided touching a soldering iron to any of the dev boards.) Plus, they're just a handy addition for future altera/hsmc debug. My other excuse was having an Intronix Logicport logic analyzer ($389, http://www.pctestinstruments.com/ ) which also uses a 40p (IDE ribbon) type of connector. So I already like to use 40p debug headers & have a variety of rewired IDE ribbon cables. If you'd rather connect the high speed connections, maybe you could try hsmc to SATA or SMA, like this ($140): http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=67&no=129 Good luck, -B
