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14 years ago

How to connect two FPGA board?

Hi all;

Is there any document on this subject?

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    Thank you for your answer.

    How to connect two FPGA board, especially over GPIO interface
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    Just connect the pins together and implement your own transfer protocol, or use something like a UART.

    If you need more help you'll have to give more details. Which boards? To transfer what? What speed? Over what distance?
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    Thank you for your answer.

    I have two Altera De2 boards. I want to use the M4K memory blocks of slave board.
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    You can probably use the 40-pin expansion headers and put wires between the two boards. Have a look at the board schematics to check what pins you can use.

    As for accessing the memory blocs, then you'll probably have to design your own protocol.