Altera Corporation
Reference Manual
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May 2007
Nios Development Board Stratix II Edition
Board Components
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41 I/O pins for prototyping. All 41 I/O pins connect to user I/O pins
on the FPGA. Each signal passes through analog switches to protect
the FPGA from 5.0 V logic levels. These analog switches are
permanently enabled. The output logic-level on the expansion
prototype connector pins is 3.3 V.
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PROTO1 switches: U19, U20, U21, U22 and U25
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PROTO2 switches: U27, U28, U29, U30 and U31
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A buffered, zero-skew copy of the on-board oscillator output from
U2.
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A buffered, zero-skew copy of the FPGA phase-locked loop (PLL)
output.
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A power-on reset signal that is asserted low.
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Five regulated 3.3 V power-supply pins (2 A total max load for both
PROTO1 & PROTO2).
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One regulated 5.0 V power-supply pin (1 A total max load for both
PROTO1 & PROTO2).
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Numerous ground connections.
The PROTO1 expansion prototype connector shares FPGA I/O pins with
the CompactFlash connector (CON3). Designs can use either the PROTO1
connector or the CompactFlash connector.
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Do not connect cards to PROTO1 and CON3 at the same time.
Damage to one or both cards might result.
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See the Altera web site for a list of available expansion daughter cards
that can be used with the Nios development board at
www.altera.com/devkits.
Table 2–11
,
Figure 2–6
and
Figure 2–7
show connections from the
PROTO1 expansion headers to the FPGA.
Figure 2–6. PROTO1 Expansion Prototype Connector - J11, J12 & J13
Pin 1
J11
J12
J13
Pin 1
Pin 1