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13 years agoState of Unused I/O pins and design of isolation filter for Cyclone IV FPGA
Hello there, Reference: Cyclone 4 EP4CE10 FPGA I m developing a prototype board with minimum peripheral say 4 slide switches, and 4 LEDs, with a 40pin GPIO, with program persistance throug...
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13 years agoFor your GPIO pins you can leave them floating if you have pull-ups or pull-downs. Without them the pin voltage could oscillate and increase the chip consumption. You can either put some pull-us/downs on the board or use the assignment editor or pin planner to enable the internal pull-ups in the FPGA on those pins.
As for the filter between two supplies of the same value, we usually put a ferrite. If you have enough decoupling on both FPGA supplies it should be enough. As an example you can download one of the FPGA development kit support files and have a look at the schematics.