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15 years ago

GPIO pins problem in Cyclone III kit

Dear Guys I bought an altera cyclone III Fpga kit and it has 8 GPIO(General Purpose I\O) pins only :( and we need more GPIO pins So, Does anyone know how i can get more GPIO pins??? ...
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15 years ago

the demo board has some keys and LEDs , this components' pins may be used as input or output pins.

if you need more pins, you can design a daughter PCB with 180 pins HSMC connector. connect them, then the daughter PCB will extends the GPIO pins number.