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Development Kit Contents
- The Nios II Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition is composed of the Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit and an LCD/VGA HSMC daughtercard and features:
- Cyclone III Starter Board
- Cyclone III EP3C25F324 FPGA
- Configuration
- Embedded USB-Blaster™ circuitry (includes an Altera EPM3128A CPLD) allowing download of FPGA configuration files via your USB port
- Power and analog devices from Linear Technology
- Switching power supply LTM4603EV-1
- Switching and step-down regulators LTC3413, LT1959
- Memory
- 32 Mbytes of DDR SDRAM
- 1 Mbyte of synchronous SRAM
- 16 Mbytes of Intel P30/P33 flash
- Clocking
- 50-MHz on-board oscillator
- Switches and indicators
- Six push buttons total, four user controlled
- Seven LEDs total, four user controlled
- LCD daughtercard
- Color LCD touch-screen display
- 800 x 480 resolution
- 24-bit CD-quality audio CODEC with line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks
- 10/100 Ethernet physical layer/media access control (PHY/MAC)
- Connectors
- VGA output
- Composite TV-in
- Audio-out, audio-in, and microphone-in
- Secure digital (SD) card
- Serial connector (RS-232 DB9 port)
- PS/2
- Ethernet connector (RJ-45)
- Color LCD touch-screen display
- Nios II Evaluation Kit CD-ROM
- Example applications
- Application selector
- Picture viewer
- Mandelbrot acceleration with the Nios C2H compiler
- Web server/remote FPGA configuration
- Hardware tutorials
- Create an FPGA design in one hour
- Build a 32-bit soft processor system inside an FPGA
- Software tutorials
- My First Software Application
- Complete documentation
- Quick start guide
- User guide
- Reference manual
- Board schematic, layout, and bill of materials
- Product and partner information
- Example applications
- Cables and accessories
- 128-Mbyte SD card and USB-to-SD card adapter
- USB cable
- 9-V power supply
- International power cords
- Ethernet (RJ-45) cable (7 ft.)
- Ethernet crossover adapter
- Altera Complete Design Suite DVD (free):
- Quartus® II Web Edition (FPGA design software)
- ModelSim®-Altera Web Edition (FPGA simulation software from ModelSim)
- Nios II Embedded Design Suite (32-bit microprocessor software)
- MicroC/OS-II real-time operating system evaluation
- Nios II C-to-Hardware acceleration compiler evaluation
- NicheStack TCP/IP Network Stack - Nios II Edition evaluation
- SD/MMC SPI IP Core evaluation licensing available through El Camino
- MegaCore® IP Library (library of intellectual property cores)