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16 years ago

a question about pins and their resou

how to know the resource of the board,such as its clock's frequency and where is it? Or can we just find the icon on the board?

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    i thinkthe schematics is less convient than the language.The board is cyclone ii ep2c35-672-c6n.Thanks for replying.

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    Unfortunately with Altera kits it's the only reliable source. Their documents and reference manuals can have some mistakes.

    Is it the PCI development kit that you have? It is the only one that I see with a EP2C35
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    Your question is ambiguous.

    Many boards have more than one crystal on it. For example, my DE1 board has a 24 Mhz, 27 Mhz, and 50 Mhz crystal on it. They are easily found on the board's schematic.

    A pll may be used to multiply or divide any of these clock signals that are fed into the dedicated clock inputs of the FPGA, or they may be used as is.

    So the question is what clock are you interested in? The clock that goes to an audio chip, SDRAM, Video controller, NIOS 2's system clock, .....?

    Assuming you want to know what the NIOS 2's system clock is, you need to find out what signal drives the signal named "clk" in the system instantiation in the top-level HDL file. If it is the output from a PLL, open up the megawizard and choose this existing PLL, and check the parameters there. You will then find the source clock's frequency and the output frequency.

    If your top level module is a Quartus schematic file, the parameters used for the PLL are visible in a table somewhere on the schematic sheet.
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    How to get the schematic sheet? Where to find it ? I can't find it in datasheet.

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    What board do you have? "cyclone ii ep2c35-672-c6n" is the FPGA reference, not the board name.

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    Thanks for all of you! I have find the place where to find the imformation i want.It is in product column of official web.