MiSTer Addons
The MiSTer FPGA project lead developer Alexey Melnikov (Sorgelig) has designed and added a number of daughter boards, these provide additional functionality to the required base DE10-Nano board. A basic entry level MiSTer setup starts with just a bare DE10-Nano board. However with just one additional addon board the SDRAM module, you will be able to use the majority of available computer, console and arcade cores.
The most popular expansion addon boards are as follows, the MiSTer SDRAM board which is plugged into the JP1 (GPIO 0) connector of the DE10-Nano board. Providing a retro memory module for many cores.
The MiSTer IO board is plugged into the JP7 (GPIO 1) connector of the DE10-Nano and provides a VGA output, 3.5mm audio jack with TOSLink, three buttons, three status LEDs, secondary micro SD card slot, fan header, user IO connector, two additional headers allowing integration of the MiSTer into cases.
The MiSTer Digital IO board leaves both DE10-Nano GPIO connectors free while still providing, a dedicated on off power switch, 3.5mm jack for tape input, digital TOSLINK connectors, a secondary microSD card slot, three status LEDs, three push buttons, expansion connector, external LED and button headers for integration into a MiSTer case.
The Real Time Clock or MiSTer RTC board provides real time offline for certain MiSTer cores, the RTC board for the MiSTer is plugged into the Terasic DE10-Nano’s LTC connector.
The MiSTer USB Hub Board is an expansion board allowing for convenient USB device connections, this add-on board provides a 7 port USB hub which sits neatly under the DE10-Nano main board.
Expansion Boards
The audio input board uses a 3.5mm headphone jack for input, this MiSTer addon board is plugged into the 10 pin header labelled ‘J15 ADC CON’ located on the DE10-Nano mainboard below the Gigabit Ethernet socket. Audio tape input is currently supported within the following cores : Acorn Atom, Acorn Electron, ADCTest, AliceMC10, Amstrad, Apple-II, [...]
Expansion Boards
The BlisSTer Rev 3 board is an advanced peripheral add-on board for the MiSTer providing the following, a five port USB hub, an integrated on/off switch to control power to the MiSTer and additionally it has two low latency ports, these allow for the direct connection of Bliss-Box controller adapters to the MiSTer. If you [...]
Expansion Boards
The MiSTer FPGA Analog IO board v6.1 includes the following useful features a VGA (DB15) connector allowing for the output of a VGA/RGB/YPbPr signal depending on the cable being used, a 3.5mm audio jack with Mini-TOSLINK providing analog audio output and digital audio output, a secondary microSD card slot the functionality depends upon the core [...]
Expansion Boards
The MiSTer FPGA Digital IO Board v1.2 provides the following features, a dedicated power switch to turn the unit on and off with over-voltage protection, a 3.5mm audio jack for ADC In (Tape Input) a separate ADC-In addon board is not required, 3.5mm Mini-TOSLINK & Digital TOSLINK Connectors, a secondary microSD card slot the functionality depends [...]
Expansion Boards
The MiSTer FPGA AV Pro v9.2 IO board is a modular hybrid design that provides the functionality of the Digital IO board. This modular design allows it to be used as a Digital IO only for a dual SDRAM setup or as an Analog IO with the AV module. When using the AV module, it [...]
Expansion Boards
The MiSTer Laggy is a display latency tester designed for use with the MiSTer FPGA system. Comprising of a dedicated core running on the MiSTer FPGA and the hardware sensor connected to the MiSTer’s User Port via a USB type A to type C cable. MiSTer Laggy measures the time between when a frame is [...]
Expansion Boards
This is the official MiSTer project endorsed mt32-pi HAT for the Raspberry Pi offering a solution to directly connect the Raspberry Pi to the MiSTer, without the need for separate power, audio, or MIDI cabling. Overall a simple plug and play Munt and FluidSynth solution. Many of the MiSTer computer cores support external MIDI hardware, [...]
Expansion Boards
Some cores such as the ao486 (PC), Archie (Acorn Archimedes), BBC Micro Master 128K, Color Computer 3 (CoCo3), Commodore 64 (C64), Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Minimig (Amiga), NeoGeo, MSX, SNES (Super Nintendo), TSConf (ZX Spectrum), QL (Sinclair QL), Zet98 (PC-98), ZXNext (ZX Spectrum Next), PC8801, X68000 use a clock, so MiSTer [...]
Expansion Boards
This Extra Slim (XS) v2.2 board provides 32MB of SDR SDRAM memory for cores requiring a large (>512KB) of memory. Although the DE10-Nano has built in DDR3 RAM, it has a high latency and is not suitable for the timings required of retro EDO DRAM. So if a core requires precise memory timings, then the [...]
Expansion Boards
This Extra Slim (XS-DS) v3.0 official memory board provides 128MB of SDR SDRAM memory for cores requiring a large (>512KB) of memory including the Neo Geo core. Although the DE10-Nano has built in DDR3 RAM, it has a high latency and is not suitable for the timings required of retro EDO DRAM. So if a [...]
Expansion Boards
The USB Hub v2.1 board provides 7 USB ports for the MiSTer FPGA, if you need to connect multiple USB devices this is a very useful add-on board, offering a neat minimalist connection solution via the provided Micro USB Bracket Connector which connects directly into the header installed on the USB hub board and then [...]