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10 years ago

Cyclone III Starter Board clock input

This starter board is having a Cyclone III EP3C25F324 device with a 50MHz oscillator supplying the clock signal. For my project we would like to use an oscillator with a higher frequency stability. A...
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10 years ago

Changing to a 100MHZ oscillator should be fine provided it matches the I/O interface specification (e.g. 2.5V, 3.3V, LVTTL, LVCMOS, or whatever). It will not affect JTAG programming.