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14 years ago

physical interface between Cyclone III & DAC

Hello to all, I am working on a test waveform generator project using the Cyclone III starter kit (3C25N). Once synthesized on the FPGA, the waveform will be sent to a DAC so that it can be vi...
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14 years ago

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You need to buy an HSMC break-out board that converts the signals to 100-mil headers.

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The breakout board that I know (the one documented with the Cyclone III c120 development kit) has a serious disadvantage: It hasn't any ground pins at the debug header. I don't think it's particularly suited to connect single-ended high speed signals.