Built from the ground up for cost-sensitive applications
Like Altera's highly successful first-generation 130-nm Cyclone® FPGA family, 90-nm Cyclone II FPGAs are built from the ground up for low cost and to provide a customer-defined feature set for high-volume, cost-sensitive applications. Cyclone II FPGAs deliver high performance and low power consumption at a cost that rivals that of ASICs.
Cyclone II FPGAs are supported by the easy-to-use and free Quartus® II Web Edition design software (no license required), a broad catalog of intellectual property (IP), and hardware development kits to enable rapid development of low-cost FPGA solutions.
Customer-defined feature set
You can use Cyclone II FPGAs alone or as a digital signal processing (DSP) solution and, when a Nios® II processor is implemented, Cyclone II FPGAs provide a cost-effective embedded processing solution. Cyclone II FPGAs provide a wide range of density, memory, embedded multiplier, and packaging options in a customer-defined FPGA feature set optimized for low-cost applications .
Cyclone II FPGAs also support a wide range of common external memory interfaces and I/O protocols common in low-cost applications. Plus, you'll find parameterizable intellectual property (IP) cores make using Cyclone II FPGA interfaces and protocols easy.
Get started now with free software and resources
Learn more about Altera® Cyclone II FPGAs and start your next design now. The following resources are available from Altera and ecosystem partners to get you started designing with confidence.
- Download Cyclone II literature and utilities, including:
- Cyclone II Device Handbook—Comprehensive device information and PCB layout guidelines
- Pin-outs (PDF, TXT, and XLS formats)
- Cyclone II PowerPlay early power estimator
- Download free design software and IP evaluations, including:
- Free Quartus II Web Edition design software and no license required (supports all Cyclone II FPGAs)
- Nios II embedded processors (evaluation edition)
- IP cores supporting Cyclone II devices
- Jump-start development with Altera and partner development kits
- Download PCB layout and test files, including:
- Gerber files for FineLine BGA packages
- IBIS models for simulation
- BSDL files for testing
- PCB symbols and footprint libraries
- Buy device samples online
Altera end-market solutions
Cyclone II devices are perfect for a wide array of high-volume end-market solutions, such as automotive, communications, consumer, video processing, and test and measurement.
