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18 years ago

Problems with pin assignments with Cyclone III starter board

Hello, I have been attempting to program my FPGA to communicate with the SSRAM provided with the cyclone 3 starter board. However, when I attempt to assign pins H3 (FLASH_SRAM_DQ0) and D1 (FLA...
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18 years ago

AS means active serial configuration, the starter board actually uses AP (active parallel) configuration, but it don't need to be set explicitely in Quartus.

Assignments->Device->Device and Pin Options is the place for configuration settings. The important thing is that you set the Dual-Purpose Pins to regular i/o. The configuration scheme should be better set to passive serial to avoid conflicts with IO voltage.