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Altera_Forum
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12 years agoYes, you can design a board without any external memory. However, when powered up your board will have no ability to boot the FPGA itself. You will need to use the USB-Blaster every time you switch the board on. For a school project, I'd suggest that is acceptable.
A quick look round the diagram you posted doesn't highlight anything untoward. Minor comment: you have a (very slow) clock feeding two clock pins. You only really need drive one clock pin and you'll be able to use it through the device. Tie the second clock input pin to GND or drive it with a different clock frequency to control some other exciting logic. Do you mean 50Hz? That is a very slow clock for and FPGA :). They typically run at, perhaps, 50MHz...