40pin IDE cable to 40pin breakout board
Chris designed this simple 40pin IDE to 40pin ”0.1 header to easily breadboard with his DE0-Nano FPGA development system. While it was designed for the DE0-Nano, any board that uses the 40 pin IDE header can be broken out in this way. He provided in-depth instructions on how to build your own, including the design files.
Via Embedded Lab.
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Great, I am finally getting around to playing with my stm32f4-discovery which rather left me scratching my head regarding breadboarding it because of this very reason :)
Except.. it has a 50 way IDC not a 40 way one. ho hum, and I just built my hopes up too :(
Guess I will have to design my own for 50 pin. Still, it is all practice after all and what doesn’t burn you can only make you solder.
These http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230840334419 jumper wires with Male/Female connectors are great for connecting a board that have male headers, like the STM32F4, to a solderless breadboard….
Thanks for the link, that would work except it is a lot of tedious work to break out all 100 pins one by one. and would be inherently prone to failure due to a wire coming out.
An option for me would be a 50-way SCSI IDC cable broke out as above onto some stripboard.
Yup, they’re nice as an alternative to the standard M/M and F/F variants that are sold everywhere, but they’re not a universal solution for everything…
But breaking out and connecting/using all 100 pins onto a breadboard would most likely more jumpers and parts on the breadboards than I ever would care wiring up. :-)
Not too bad considering the guy only has one finger.