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14 years ago

banks and gpio and ports

I noticed that the Cyclone III has banks and the pins are labeled IO and list other functions..... Are the gpio pins assignable or assigned to a port like a 8 bit or 16 bit port ? I am used to ...
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14 years ago

Sure. Any pio pin is freely assignable to any general purpose I/O pin.

You are neither required to route all N signals of a N-bit pio port to the same i/o bank