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18 years ago

Problems with Cyclone III - NIOS II Embedded Evaluation kit

Hi everyone, I just received my Cyclone III devkit last week, and this weekend I spent some time trying to get it to work. I still haven't had any luck. Hopefully, someone here can point me i...
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18 years ago

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... After that, it looks like I'll have to make a custom board for that special connector if I want to do anything useful.

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I would check out Terasic. They make an HSMC (the special connector) to GPIO Daughter Board for the kit that is useful and probably a lot easier than making your own for $50.

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=39&no=218 (http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=39&no=218)