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Altera_Forum
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17 years agoDriving 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...
Altera_Forum
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17 years agoYou'll have to face the same signal integrity problems as with any other unterminated data bus system. Particularly the stubs loaded with the FPGA I/O capacitance will cause serious signal reflections. Series resistances, either at the chips or near the board connector can help to reduce it. You should use a moderate bus speed anyway.
There's no principal difference between LVTTL and LVCMOS I/O standard on the FPGA side, it's just a different way to calculate the I/O drive strength according to the different thresholds involved with the standard. P.S.: From existing single ended bus standards, Cyclone III supports 3.3V PCI and PCI-X. This is a way to provide a specified standard without external bus drivers.