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lutzek
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4 years ago

FPGA to microcontroller interface short circuit protection

Hello, In my design I have microcontroller and MAX10. I have SPI and USART between these two. What is a good practice to protect these two circuits in case of mistake in pin configuration during wr...
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EricMunYew_C_Intel
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4 years ago

Before you interfacing between your FPGA and microcontroller, you have to make sure that the input of one is connected to the output of another. And you can't connect two inputs or two outputs together.