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Preface
The ASK1CA provides a cost-efficient development board for use by FPGA beginners. This educational tool features a 144-pin Cyclone FPGA on a 1/4 A4-paper size (10.5 x 14.85 cm) PCB equipped with a variety of I/Os and displays for use in a multitude of experiments covered in associated VLSI reading materials. Two models of the development board exist, with Cyclone FPGAs of differing capabilities: Model ASK1CA-3 ASK1CA-6 Description EP1C3TC144 (30,000 gates) FPGA w/ EPCS1 1MB PROM for start-up design storage EP1C6TC144 (60,000 gates) FPGA w/ EPCS4 4MB PROM for start-up design storage
The difference between the boards resides in the density of the FPGA and the accompanying PROM chip and not in the functions it can perform with the included I/O devices.
Chapter I
An introduction to the ASK1CA Development Board.
A list of features of the ASK1CA development board are as follows: A 30,000 Gate Cyclone EP1C3 FPGA or 60,000 Gate Cyclone EP1C6 (144-pin TQFP Package) (EP1C3TC144 / EP1C6TC144) 1M-Byte or 4M-Byte Parallel Flash, and programming configuration PROM chip 128K bytes of fast asynchronous SRAM 8-bit VGA display output 9-pin RS-232 serial DM9 9 - pin female port (DCE terminal) PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard Port Eight 7-segment LED Eight Orange LEDs Four Push buttons 10 MHz Quartz clock source (on back of the board) 50 MHz Quartz clock source FPGA Configuration Indicator LED 22-pin I/O expansion connector (2.54mm pitch double-pin) JTAG and AS download ports 5V and USB external power supply sockets Power Status LEDs
Chapter II
Interactive functions present on the board.
2.1 LEDs
ASK1CA comes with eight LED lights labelled LED0 - LED7, featured in the table are LED Name LED5 LED6 LED7 LED8 LED9 LED10 LED11 LED12 FPGA Pin 10 11 27 28 31 32 33 34
The following table concerns the 16-pin connector: Data bit D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 RS (1 = Data, 0 = Inst) RW EN FPGA Pin 60 61 62 67 68 69 70 71 57 58 59
Write Enable (WE), Output Enable (OE) and Control Signal (CE) Function WE OE CE SRAM Data Bus Configuration Data bit D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 FPGA Pin 77 78 79 82 22 23 26 27 FPGA Pin 83 109 76
2.9 Buzzer
Function Buzzer FPGA Pin 134