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12 years ago

Be Warned: Altera FMC Connector not compatible with some daughter cards!

Hi - I was about to purchase an Arria V SoC Card to use with an ADI daughtercard (AD-FMCOMMS2-EBZ - demo card for the ADI 9361 ADC/DAC). However, it turns out the boards won't mate. The Vita 5...
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11 years ago

Before purchasing a development kit combo; FMC carrier and FMC module, its important to create a spreadsheet to determine the pin compatibility between kits.

Here's an example spreadsheet (Excel file in the .zip file) for a Texas Instruments TSW14J56 containing an Arria V GZ and a non-standard FMC connector (their documentation indicates that the connector assignments are "based on" the FMC specification), and a Vadatech FMC108 FMC-to-QSFP+ (which fully adheres to the FMC standard). To mate these two boards, I had to solder a number of jumper wires on the FMC108 board (testpoints existed on the board that I could access).

Please use the attached spreadsheet as the basis for your own analysis. Please upload any spreadsheets you create to aid others.

Cheers,

Dave