Start Your CPLD Designs Today

Start developing your low-cost CPLD designs today with Altera's $75 MAX^® V CPLD Development Kit. This kit provides a comprehensive, low-cost hardware platform to quickly begin developing low-cost, low-power CPLD designs. Download our new Quartus^® II software now for MAX V support.

Use MAX V CPLDs for:

• I/O expansion
• Bridging
• Power management
• Analog interfacing
• Supplementing ASSPs and ASICs

With this platform, you can:

• Develop designs for the 5M570Z CPLD
• Measure CPLD power (V_CCINT and V_CCIO)
• Bridge between two different I/O voltages (adjustable V_CCIO on CPLD Bank 2)
• Interface to external functions and devices, via four connectors
• Read from and write to memories:
  • 8-kilobits (Kb) user flash memory (UFM) available within 5M570Z CPLD
  • I²C or SPI EEPROMs (user installed)
• Come up to speed quickly with your CPLD design by reusing the example designs provided by the kit's Board Test System
• Reuse the kit's PCB board and schematic as model for your design

Max CPLD Family

Featuring the industry's first look-up-table (LUT)-based, non-volatile architecture and the market's largest-density CPLD, the MAX V family provides robust features at up to 50-percent lower total power versus competitive CPLDs. MAX V devices feature on-chip flash storage, internal oscillator, and memory
functionality.

Video Demo: Make Music and More with Low-Cost, Low-Power CPLD Dev Kit

Are you ready to play a few notes? With our MAX^® V CPLD Development Kit, you can play some musical notes as you evaluate the board's ability to drive analog chips. The kit also gives you a platform to assess the MAX V CPLD and prototype CPLD applications. In this video, you'll see demos that will show you:

• How easily you can measure power consumption
• Why the MAX V CPLD is a good power management controller
• How you can use the kit to measure the accuracy of the CPLD's internal oscillator
• How you can read from and write to the on-chip flash memory or the kit's memory devices
  

Related Links

• Buy the MAX V CPLD Development Kit
• Buy MAX V CPLDs
• White paper: Implementing the Top Five Control-Path Applications with Low-Cost, Low-Power CPLDs (PDF)
• Download MAX V Device Handbook (PDF)
• Download Quartus II software v11.0