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16 years ago

DE0 board, mysterious LED behavior

I've recently been testing out a daughtercard I made for the DE0 board which includes a motor driver and connector for a quadrature encoder. I was testing some code I wrote to decode the quadrature ...
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16 years ago

What's the reasoning behind randomly assigning signals to pins?

I normally define outputs in my top level schematic for the purpose of simulation, or as placeholders for future connections. It's not too much trouble to remove them, but I'd like to know why it's absolutely necessary.