Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Kit

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

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-Mb SDRAM
512-Kb SRAM
4-Mb 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
Power from USB cable or external power supply (recommended when using the kit with accessory daughtercards, U.S.-style adapter provided)
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
Nios II evaluation license included