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15 years ago

de2 board minimum voltage

hi could I operate the de2 board with less then 9 volt ?
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15 years ago

If you examine the DE2 schematic, you'll notice that the 3.3V switcher LM2676 has a specified minimum inpout voltage of 8V. There's no specification about reduced performanve with lower input voltage. In addition a voltage drop of 0.6..0.8 will be caused by the schottky bridge rectifier.