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12 years ago

Cyclone V SoC General Purpose I/O

I am thinking about buying Cyclone V SoC development kit. I cannot figure out does it have general purpose I/O pins, connected to some outer connector. In reference manual HSMC cards are mentioned, n...
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12 years ago

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Hi,

I recommend to read through this thread:

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2262 (http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=205&no=836)

You can use a small "HSMC Debug Header" add on board.

Moreover, there is now released a new board by Terasic called DE1-SoC Board (Cyclone V SoC), which has 2x20 GPIO expansion headers.

Link: http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=205&no=836

Regards,

Zs.V.

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It seems that both links you gave bring me to same location. So is the thing functioning this way? You take "HSMC Debug Header" as additional board and through that you can access GPIO pins?