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Nios Development Board Reference Manual, Cyclone Edition December 2004
CompactFlash Connector
CompactFlash
Connector
The CompactFlash connector (CON3) enables hardware designs to access
a CompactFlash card (see Figure 1–3). The following two access modes
are supported:
■ ATA (hot swappable mode)
■ IDE (IDE hard disk mode)
Figure 1–3. CompactFlash Connector
Most pins of CON3 connect to I/O pins on the FPGA. The following pins
have special connections:
■ Pin 13 of CON3 (VCC) is driven by a power MOSFET that is
controlled by an FPGA I/O pin. This allows the FPGA to control
power to the CompactFlash card for the IDE connection mode.
■ Pin 26 of CON3 (-CD1) is pulled up to 5V through a 10 Kohm resistor.
This signal is used to detect the presence of a CompactFlash card;
when the card is not present, the signal is pulled high through the
pull-up resistor.
■ Pin 41 of CON3 (RESET) is pulled up to 5V through a 10 Kohm
resistor, and is controlled by the EPM7128AE configuration
controller. The FPGA can cause the configuration controller to assert
RESET, but the FPGA does not drive this signal directly.
1 The CompactFlash connector shares several Cyclone I/O pins
with expansion prototype connector PROTO1. See “Expansion
Prototype Connector (PROTO1)” on page 1–11 for details on
PROTO1.
Table 1–2 on page 1–7 provides CompactFlash pin out details.
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