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Honored Contributornewbie question - gpio
Hello everyone, I have an altera DE2 Board and have a question regarding the gpio. As I only used the onboard input debvices(switches/buttons) up to now I'm not sure how to connect something to ...
Altera_ForumHonored Contributor
Honored ContributorI am not familiar with the DE2 board so cannot help with your first question.
Regarding your second question. Yes you can implement a 2 wire serail comm sprotocl with 2 FPGA pins. Look at already existing protocols like i2c (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/i2c) or even a good old RS232 UART. You may find that IP components already exist and it might not be worth reinventing something.
