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17 years ago

NEEK GPIO: Newbie question

Sorry for such a newbie question, but here goes: I'm a software developer that is making the first forray into embedded FPGA design. Being a little naive I picked up the Altera NIOS II with Cy...
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17 years ago

NEEK (Nios embedded evaluation kit) is a nice board, but as said, not particularly suited for digital IO applications. As a general remark, none of the todays or previous generation FPGA families has 5V IO or is 5V tolerant.

Terrasic DE2 or similar (somewhat less IO) Altera DK board has IO pin headers that are useful to connect digital interfaces. Previous nios ii development kit, cyclone ii edition even has 5V tolerant IDE headers.