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14 years ago

EP2C8Q208 vs DE2

Hello all,

I am new to the FPGA world but we are using the in my university. There we are using the (older?) DE2 boards.

Now I am looking to get one for home to play a bit with, but ebay is basically full of these:

www . ebay.com/itm/Cyclone-NIOS-II-Altera-FPGA-Development-Board-EP2C8Q208-with-LCD1602-/300778317442?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4607c8e682

tinyurl.com/9xpqt39

What are the differences, except for the extra peripherals? Would there be very different coding? Could I make a piece of code that would work on both boards?

Thanks in advance!

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    14 years ago

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    Now I am looking to get one for home to play a bit with, but ebay is basically full of these ...

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    If you can get the schematic to the board, then you will have everything you need to use it. If you cannot get the schematic, then I'd be a little more reluctant about buying the board. In that case, you would have to search their example designs to extract the pin information required to use all of the components on the board.

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    Would there be very different coding? Could I make a piece of code that would work on both boards?

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    You would have a different top-level entity for each board, but would instantiate a common component for any common peripherals.

    Cheers,

    Dave