The ACEX-Board - A multi purpose test board for experiments and exercises

Here you can find some short description of the board and of the project Sweet-16.

The pin assignment for the ACEX chip in the .acf format.

The pin assignment for the ACEX board for Quartus in .csf format.

The complete ACEX Board Schematic & Component Layout.

Here you can find some hints how to make designs for the ACEX Board with Altera MAX+PLUS II Program and some comments on additional building blocks like a 7-segment display, a PS/2 mouse or a VGA interface.

Additional datasheets:

• Altera FPGA Datasheet: The data sheet of the ACEX chip family.
• Fast 8-bit ADC: The data sheet for the analog-to-digital converter.
• Altera ByteBlasterMV download cable: Schematic of the ByteBlaster cable.
• LVDS line driver / receiver: Data sheets of the LVDS Line Driver and Receiver.
• Synchronous SRAM IDT and ISSI: Synchronous SRAM data sheet.
• 16-bit Serial DAC: Data sheet of the 16-bit digital-to-analog converter.
• Fast 8-bit video DAC: Data sheet for the 8-bit digital-to-analog converter.

We also would like to thank to the German distributors Scantec & Topas of IDT and ISSI for supporting our work with free memory chips.

The boards are manufactured by LXCO Technologies AG.