Altera: DK-DEV-3C120N Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit

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Kit Overview

Development Tools

Technical Documents

Video

Features

Kit Contents

Overview

Altera's DK-DEV-3C120NDK-DEV-3C120N Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit combines the largest density low-cost, low-power FPGA available with a robust set of memories and user interfaces. The kit dramatically reduces the design and verification portion of your project, whether it’s for automotive, consumer, wireless communications, video processing or another high-volume, cost-sensitive application.The low-cost Cyclone III FPGA family, the industry’s first family of low-cost, 60-nm devices offers an unprecedented combination of low power, high functionality, and low cost. Cyclone III devices are ideal to complement or replace ASSPs or ASICs.

The Cyclone® III development board provides a hardware platform for developing and prototyping low-power, high-volume, and feature-rich designs as well as to demonstrate the Cyclone III device’s on-chip memory, embedded multipliers, and the Nios® II embedded processor. Built on TSMC’s 65-nm low-power process technology, Cyclone III devices are designed to provide low static and dynamic power consumption.

Additionally, with the support of the Quartus® II software’s PowerPlay technology, designs are automatically optimized for power consumption. Therefore, the Cyclone III development board provides a power-optimized, integrated solution for memory-intensive, high-volume applications. With up to 4 Mbits of embedded memory and 288 embedded 18-bit × 18-bit multipliers, the Cyclone III device supplies internal memory while also providing external support for high-speed, low-latency memory access via dual-channel DDR SDRAM and low-power SRAM.

If you are an experienced FPGA designer checking out the Cyclone III architecture, you'll love building systems leveraging the 50 percent (on average) faster performance Cyclone III FPGAs offer over the competition.

Key Applications: Automotive, Consumer, Display, Industrial, Military, Video and image processing and Wireless.

Development Tools

Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	Supported Family	MPN	Description
IDE	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	Altera Quartus II	It's the industry's number one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, and HardCopy ASIC designs. The Altera Quartus II software, the industry's number one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, and HardCopy ASIC designs. Learn More

Hardware Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	Support?ed Family	MPN	Description
Download Cable	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	PL-BYTEBLASTER2NPL-BYTEBLASTER2N	The ByteBlaster II enables a PC to configure or program Altera devices. The download cable drives configuration or programming data using a standard parallel printer port from the PC.
Download Cable	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	PL-USB-BLASTER-RCNPL-USB-BLASTER-RCN	The USB-Blaster drives configuration or programming data from the PC to configure or program Altera devices. The download cable interfaces to a standard USB PC port.
Download Cable	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	PL-ETH2-BLASTERPL-ETH2-BLASTER	The EthernetBlaster can receive configuration or programming data from the Ethernet network to remotely configure or program Altera devices. The communications cable connects to a standard Ethernet network port with an RJ-45 connector.

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
User Guide	Altera: User Guide for Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit
User Guide	Altera: User Guide for Cyclone III EP3C120 Development Board
Reference Manual	Altera: Reference Manual for Cyclone III 3C120 Development Board
Product Brief	Altera: Product Brief for DK-DEV-3C120N Dev Kit
Tutorials	Altera: Tutorials for DK-DEV-3C120N Dev Kit
Revision Note	Altera: Revision Note for DK-DEV-3C120N Dev Kit

Design Elements

Type	Description
Schematics	Altera: Schematics File for DK-DEV-3C120N Dev Kit
Layout	Altera: Layout File for DK-DEV-3C120N Dev Kit
BOM	Altera: BOM File for DK-DEV-3C120N Dev Kit
Application Library	Altera: Software Code for DK-DEV-3C120N Dev Kit

Video

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Kit Features

The board features the following major component blocks:

Embedded memory for high-bandwidth applications
Expandable through two Altera High-Speed Mezzanine Connectors (HSMCs)
Supports high-speed external memory interfaces including dual-channel DDR SDRAM and low-power SRAM
Four user push-button switches
Power consumption display
780-pin Altera Cyclone III EP3C120 EP3C120 FPGA in a BGA package
- 119K logic elements (LEs)
- 3,888 Kbits of memory
- 288 18 × 18 multiplier blocks
- Four phase locked loops (PLLs)
- 20 global clock networks
- 531 user I/Os
- 1.2-V core power
256-pin Altera MAX® II EPM2210GEPM2210G CPLD in a FineLine Ball Grid Array (FBGA) package
- 1.8-V core power
On-board memory
- 256-MB dual-channel DDR2 SDRAM
- 8-MB SRAM
- 64-MB flash memory
FPGA configuration circuitry
- MAX II CPLD and flash passive serial configuration
- On-board USB-Blaster™ circuitry using the Quartus II Programmer
On-board clocking circuitry
- Two clock oscillators to support Cyclone III device user logic
  - 50 MHz
  - 125 MHz
- 80 I/O, 6 clocks, SMBus, and JTAG
- SMA connector for external clock input and output
General user and configuration interfaces
- LEDs/displays:
  - Eight user LEDs
  - One transmit/receive LED (TX/RX) per HSMC interface
  - One configuration done LED
  - Ethernet LEDs
  - User 7-segment display
  - Power consumption display
- Memory activity LEDs:
  - SRAM
  - FLASH
  - DDR2 Top
  - DDR2 Bottom
- Push-buttons:
  - One user reset push-button (CPU reset)
  - Four general user push-buttons
  - One system reset push-button (user configuration)
  - One factory push-button switch (factory configuration)
- DIP switches:
  - One MAX control DIP switch
  - One JTAG control switch
  - Eight user DIP switches
  - Speaker header
Displays
- 128 × 64 graphics LCD
- 16 × 2 line character LCD
Power supply
- 14 V – 20 V DC input
- On-board power measurement circuitry
- Up to 19.8 W per HSMC interface
Mechanical
- 6” × 8” board
- Bench-top design
The Cyclone III development board provides the following advantages:
- Unique combination of low-cost, low-power Cyclone III FPGA that supports high-volume, memory-intensive designs
- Highest multiplier-to-logic ratio FPGA in the industry
- Lowest cost, density- and power-optimized FPGA
- Quartus II development software’s power optimization tools

Kit Contents

The Altera DK-DEV-3C120NDK-DEV-3C120N Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit supplied with below contents:

Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit, CD-ROM (download all CD contents via FTP)
- Design examples for the Cyclone III FPGA development board
- Complete documentation
  - User guide
  - Reference manual
  - Board schematic and layout
  - Bill of materials (BOM)
  - Product and partner information
Altera Complete Design Suite (download from Altera Download Center)
- Quartus® II design software
  - Subscription Edition (optional feature, available for purchase)
  - Web Edition (no charge, Windows only)
- ModelSim®-Altera software
  - Altera Edition (optional feature, available for purchase)
  - Web Edition (no charge, Windows only)
- MegaCore® IP Library - OpenCore Plus evaluation
  - Includes Nios II processor (evaluation license)
- Nios II Embedded Design Suite, Evaluation Edition (no charge)
- DSP Builder (optional feature and available for purchase)
- Video demos of Quartus II software and Nios II embedded processor

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