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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

This board doen't need that pin, it is not used whe configuring the device with JTAG.

Since this is a pin that connects to the doughter card you have, it's free to use a a regular I/O. See the altera documentation (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyc3/cyc3_ciii51010.pdf)on what options you have for ptogramming a cycloneIII and for what specific configuration mode you need this pin.

Stefaan