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18 years ago

CycloneIII Starter Board

(Disclaimer: I am a Nios and Altera Newbie. If anything (or everything) I say is wrong and/or stupid, please let me know). I recently purchased a CycloneIII Starter Board followed about 3 month...
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18 years ago

So if I remove that pin as a "Programming Pin", what impact is that down the road. Is that pin needed to configure the device? Can all those other pins be set to "regular IO"?

Do you know how the CycloneIII starter board is supposed to be configured? From what I gather, the choice in configuration in Quartus is dependent on how the chip is wired on the board. But the schematic does not indicate which configuration method they chose and I am still trying to figure out how to determine that.