[Coco] DE1 arrives :-)

[Stephen Adolph]

power pins and ground pins are not flexible!

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces at gmail.com> wrote:
>> a couple of comments on this DE1 activity-
>>
>> 1)  Get your board before they discontinue...since for this to be
>> interesting, one might want to make expansion cards etc too, and we
>> have a defacto pinout.  They will make a new development board for the
>> next generation parts at some point.
>>
>
> The I/O pins are pretty flexible on all the FPGA boards I've seen.  I
> guess it would be wise to design any add on boards to use an adapter
> for connecting to the board, this way additional boards could be
> supported easily.  I don't imagine this will be a problem.
>