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16 years agoHow to connect PC Rs232 to CIII FPGA Pins?
I have cyclone III Starter board, with its HSMC connector occupied with a daughter card. I had my design done but I couldn't find a way to send data at run-time to the board from My PC. I am ta...
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16 years agoThanks for the response.
I thought about this solution: buying one of those breakout FPGA boards, and wire everything my self, this way I will find access to the FPGA pins to add a UART physical connector, or even USB-UART chip and connector. Does that sound reasonable? Well, I am not expert in wiring it, I know it is going to be much work, but possible, instead of 'not possible' on the starter board. My desgin doesn't take more than 1000 to 1500 LEs, so I though about a cheaper solution going down to CPLD but the number of IOs are not enough, I need 50 pins at least to replace the DVI HSMC board I have, and adding to the needed UART pins. Any idea of the best breakout board, that is easy to deal with? Thanks for your help.