Altera Nios Development Board - Manual (Page 24)

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Nios Development Board Reference Manual, Stratix Edition September 2004
Mictor Connector
Figure 1–10. Expansion Prototype Connector - J17
Notes to Figure 1–10
(1) Unregulated voltage from AC to DC power transformer
(2) Clk from board oscillator
(3) Clk from FPGA via buffer
(4) Clk output from protocard to FPGA
Mictor
Connector The Mictor connector (J25) can be used to transmit up to 27 high-speed
I/O signals with very low noise via a shielded Mictor cable. J25 is used as
a debug port. Twenty five of the Mictor connector signals are used as data,
and two signals are used as clock input and clock output.
Most pins on J25 connect to I/O pins on the Stratix device (U53). For
systems that do not use the Mictor connector for debugging the Nios II
processor, any on-chip signals can be routed to I/O pins and probed at J25
via a Mictor cable. External scopes and logic analyzers can connect to J25
and analyze a large number of signals simultaneously.
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For details on Nios II debugging products that use the Mictor connector,
see www.altera.com.
Figure 1–11 on page 1–17 shows an example of an in-target system
analyzer ISA-Nios/T (sold separately) by First Silicon Solutions (FS2) Inc.
connected to the Mictor connector. For details see www.fs2.com.