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16 years ago

Interfacing Compact Flash

Hi folks, I am Pradeep, i am a newbi in FPGA and CPLD designs. i wanted to know how can we interface compact flash with either an FPGA or a CPLD. can you suggest any relevant websites or material...
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16 years ago

It depends a lot on how you want to store the data on the compact flash. If you want to use a file system, such as FAT, so that you can read back the data on a PC, you will need a CPU.

The compact flash controller provided by Altera is meant to be used in SOPC builder with a Nios CPU. I think that you could control it directly from custom hardware, but it won't be easy.

You can find the controller datasheet here (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/nios2/qts_qii55005.pdf).