Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit
from Altera Corporation
The low-cost Cyclone® II FPGA Starter Development Kit is ideal for evaluating Altera's high-performance, low-power, 90-nm technology. By using this RoHS compliant starter development kit, you will see 60 percent (on average) higher performance and 50 percent (on average) lower power than competing 90-nm, low-cost FPGAs. Several reference designs and demonstrations included in the kit make for a quick, "out-of-the-box" evaluation experience.
The Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit includes the following:
- Altera's easy-to-use Quartus® II design software (Web Edition)
- Nios® II Embedded Design Suite (EDS)
- Complete documentation
- Cables and power supply
Cyclone II FPGAs are perfectly suited as an embedded processor or microcontroller when combined with Altera's 32-bit Nios II embedded processor intellectual property (IP) cores. You can add many other functions to the FPGA with additional IP cores available from Altera and Altera's partners.
Additional daughtercards, which plug into the Cyclone IIFPGA Starter Development Kit, are available for purchase.
Ordering Information
Development Kit Contents
The Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit is RoHS compliant and features:
- Cyclone II Starter Development Board
- Cyclone II EP2C20F484C7N device
- Configuration
- USB-BlasterTM download cable (embedded)
- EPCS4 serial configuration device
- Memory
- 8-Mbyte SDRAM
- 512-Kbit SRAM
- 1- to 4-Mbyte flash
- Clocking
- SMA connector (external clock input)
- Audio
- 24-bit coder/decoder (CODEC)
- Switches and indicators
- Ten switches and four push buttons
- Four 7-segment displays
- Ten red and eight green LEDs
- Connectors
- VGA, RS-232, and PS/2 ports
- Two 40-pin expansion ports
- SD/MMC socket
- Cables/power
- USB cable
- External power supply with U.S. adaptor (optional, but recommended when using the kit with additional accessory daughtercards)
- Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit CD-ROM
- Reference designs and demonstrations targeted for the Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Board
- User manual
- Reference guide
- Quartus II Web Edition CD-ROM
- Nios II EDS CD-ROM
Figure 1. Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Board
Available Documentation
| Table 2. Document Available for the Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit |
| Document |
File Format |
Language |
| User Guide |
Adobe PDF |
English |
| Adobe PDF |
Japanese |
| Adobe PDF |
Simplified Chinese |
| Reference Manual |
Adobe PDF |
English |
| Adobe PDF |
Japanese |
| Development Board Schematic |
Adobe PDF |
English |
| Table 3. Errata for the Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit |
| Document |
File Format |
Language |
Comments |
| CII_Starter_NIOS.v |
Adobe PDF |
English |
Note 1 |
Note:
- Problem= Nios design example included with the kit will not compile or user will receive a 'compilation error' message.
Reason= File was not included on CD shipped with kit.
Resolution= Download this file and place into the following directory structure: altera\kits\CII_Starter_Kit-v1.0.0\Examples\CII_Starter_demonstrations\CII_Starter_NIOS
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