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13 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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13 years ago

the I/Os are essentially independent. there are exceptions when doing wide, high speed buses like RAM interfaces and LVDS buses