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13 years ago

Connecting Terasic DE3 and TR4 dev boards

Hi, 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 toget...
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13 years ago

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Hi Rob,

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

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Hi Dave,

Thanks for your thoughts.

Are you meaning the expansion headers or the HSTC's and HSMC's? Any ideas on the cable solution? I was thinking about a cable solution but i don't really want to deal with cutting the power lines on an expensive cable, just in case i get it wrong.

Rob