Altera: DK-N2EVAL-3C25N - Cyclone III Edition, Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit

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Kit Overview

Development Tools

Technical Documents

Video

Features

Kit Contents

Overview

The Altera’s DK-N2EVAL-3C25NDK-N2EVAL-3C25N Nios® II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone® III Edition includes a full-featured FPGA development board, LCD Multimedia High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC), hardware and software development tools, documentation, and accessories needed to begin embedded and system on a programmable chip (SOPC) designs using FPGAs.

The development board includes an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and comes preconfigured with an FPGA hardware reference design stored in flash memory as well as several ready-to-run demonstration applications stored on the SD-Card Flash provided. Hardware designers can use the FPGA reference design as a platform to build complex embedded systems. Software developers can use the hardware reference design plus sample software applications as a starting point for their own applications.

Success for an embedded system start rights from the evaluation stage. Choosing the right platform, development tools, operating systems may be the difference between success and failure. The Altera Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition is an evaluation kit that enables you to make these critical decisions with minimal investment.

The Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition makes evaluating Altera’s embedded solutions easy. Processor systems targeting the low-cost, low-power Cyclone III FPGA can be evaluated by simply using the LCD Color Touch Panel to scroll through and load your demonstration of choice.These processor systems showcase the unique benefits of FPGA-based processors such as reducing BOM costs by integrating powerful graphics engines within the FPGA, reducing operating costs by upgrading your system over the Internet, or increasing system performance while reducing power using C-to-Hardware (C2H) acceleration.

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

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 Starter Kit
Reference Manual	Altera: Reference Manual for Cyclone III FPGA Starter Board
Datasheet	Altera: Data Sheet for Nios II 3C25 Microprocessor with LCD Controller
Tutorials	Altera: Creating Multiprocessor Nios II Systems
Tutorials	Altera: Nios II System Architect Design Tutorial
Product Brief	Altera: Altera Product Catalog
Application Note	AN548: Nios II Compact Configuration System for Cyclone III

Design Elements

Type	Description
Application Library	Altera: Design files for the Nios II system architect design tutorial
Application Library	Altera: Software code for Cyclone III Application selector utility
Application Library	AN548: Software code for Nios II Compact Configuration System for Cyclone III

Video

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Kit Features

Cyclone III EP3C25F324 FPGA
Configuration
- Embedded USB-Blaster™ circuitry (includes an Altera EPM3128A CPLD) allowing download of FPGA configuration files via your USB port
Memory
- 32 MB of DDR SDRAM
- 1 MB of synchronous SRAM
- 16 MB of Intel P30/P33 flash
Clocking
- 50-MHz, on-board oscillator
Switches and indicators
- Six push buttons total, four user controlled
- Seven LEDs total, four user controlled
Color LCD touch-screen display
- 800 x 480 resolution
24-bit CD-quality audio coder/decoder (CODEC) with line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks
10/100 Ethernet physical layer/media access control (PHY/MAC)

Kit Contents

Cyclone III starter board
LCD daughtercard
NEEK CD-ROM
Complete documentation
Quick Start Guide
User guide
Reference manual
Board schematic, layout, and BOM
Product and partner information
Cables and accessories
- 128-MB SD card and USB-to-SD card adapter
- USB cable
- 9-V power supply
- International power cords
- Ethernet (RJ-45) cable (7 ft.)
- Ethernet crossover adapter

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