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18 years ago

Cyclone III Development board errata

Hello everyone, I've designed a new system from scratch on the cyclone iii development board (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc3.html) and I found a few errors in the files ...
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14 years ago

I don't think there is any pin connection to the FPGA to control the contrast. Some LCD modules have a screw you can adjust for the contrast, some others use a special command on the parallel bus, and some use a pin. The the latter group is there is no connection to the FPGA (and it seems to be that way, according to the DE0 manual) then you may need to add a little circuit of your own to control it.

By the way this thread is about the Altera Cyclone III development board, which is different than the DE0.