Altera introduces FPGA development kit
Altera
Cyclone III FPGA Edition
Altera has announced the availability of its embedded systems development kit, Cyclone III FPGA Edition, a platform designed to accelerate the prototyping and development of FPGA-based systems.
This multi-board development kit features a Cyclone III EP3C120 device, a high-density, low-cost FPGA, and combines a robust set of on-board memory, I/O interfaces, peripherals and pre-built reference designs.
With the recent release of Wind River Linux support for Altera's Nios II soft processor, designers can use this hardware platform as a basis for developing embedded Linux designs.
Cyclone III FPGA Edition contains a selection of pre-built processor systems, intellectual property (IP), operating systems and software applications.
Users can create FPGA-based embedded systems by selecting from on-board example processor systems, demonstration designs and reference designs.
The embedded systems development kit is a three-board solution that includes a Cyclone III FPGA development board, featuring two high-speed mezzanine connectors (HSMCs), an LCD multimedia HSMC board and a multipurpose HSMC card.
The Cyclone III FPGA development board features an EP3C120F780 FPGA, 256Mbytes of dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM with ECC, 8Mbytes of pseudo SRAM, 64Mbytes of flash and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet communication port.
The development kit includes Altera's complete design suite DVD featuring the Quartus II Web Edition design software, Modelsim-Altera Starter Edition, the Nios II embedded design suite and Altera's Megacore IP library.
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