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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

Im curious why

Noone had any advice about running Cyclone II based boards off rechargeable batteries? Is there something I dont know where it's a bad idea?
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18 years ago

My needs for power are minimal (insert joke about me not really being evil here), the Cyclone II FPGA (144 pin type so I have a chance of soldering it). the EPCS chips, a few buttons, some small relays controling things from another bigger battery. It's just a toy/game prototype, so I'd rather carry extra batteries then build a 1.2v/3.3v warp drive.

This is my first PCB build and design, using PCB123 unless you know a better solution. I was a computer Engineer but never did much soldering, hoping the weller WES-51 I got may make it easier.