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18 years ago

On chip terminations cyclone III

Is the on chip termination available on these devices good enough to eliminate external source termination? The reason I ask is that it does not look like it is being used on the kit boards - I still...
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18 years ago

The customer got me the NIOS II dev kit that goes for $995 and includes a year of registration on the software.

My I/O circuits were developed connecting to the 0.1" pin headers on that Altera board.

On my new board I just used .Samtec 05" c/c dual row parts. 500K samples/sec on the ADC is the fastest thing on the other boards so there isn't any need for super good connections/layout to the I/O boards. I just wanted the Cyclone III with multiple NIOS cores to be able to have I/O operations be autonomous.

Al