Connecting Terasic DE3 and TR4 dev boards

Hi Rob,

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There are features on the Terasic DE3 and TR4 dev boards that attracts me to use both of them for the same project. What is the best method that people have found to connect these two together for the highest bit rate? I'll be sampling many inputs many times and crunching many numbers on the DE3 and want to pass it on to the TR4, so i can abuse the use of it's PCIe adaptors. So i'm looking for a link between these two with the highest bit rate possible.

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The DE3 does not have high-speed transceivers, so there is no way to 'abuse' those to connect the two boards.

Your best-bet might be to connect the two boards via cables on the GPIO connectors. Keep in mind, that the cables have power on them, so you'll want to cut the power wires in any cables before plugging the two boards together, so that the power supplies on either board are not shorted together.

Cheers,

Dave