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16 years ago

Driving Multiple FPGAs and Fanout (Cyclone III)

Hi, I have a design that will comprise of 11 FPGA boards: 10 slaves and 1 master and each board is having one cyclone III FPGA. The communication between master and slaves is via a simple SRAM...
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16 years ago

Hi,

It is a lot more complex than you have suggested, do a web search for VME bus and use some VME bus drivers to drive your backplane. VME is a standard protocoll for use in your type of application and it would save you a lot of design costs.

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