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Honored ContributorGPIO 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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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- As far as I'm aware of, the only GP I/Os of the 3C25 starter board are provided through the HSMC connector, which is interfacing the LCD Multimedia daughtercard in NEEK. So I wonder, which 8 signals you are counting as GPIO with this kit? According to the block diagram, there are none. But may be I missed something? --- Quote End --- it actually has a debug connector (10 pins) on the LCD Multimedia HSMC board , 2 of them are Vcc and Gnd, so the remaining is 8 pins only :( @ johnboat Thank you for your help, but i don't know how to use the HSMC bus, it is connected to the LCD Multimedia HSMC board physically
