Tech First Kit-Altium-12-400-NB2DSK01-DB32-FPGA Board

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Overview
Kit Contents
Key Features
Ordering Information
Documents

Overview

Altium's Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01 is a unique, reconfigurable hardware platform that can be used as a system prototyping and development platform, as an educational hands-on teaching tool, or as a complete test bed for FPGA-based embedded system design.

The NanoBoard NB2 architecture is unique in that target programmable devices are housed on plug-in swappable daughter boards, to provide a truly FPGA vendor-independent development board. Altium's LatticeECP3 daughter board DB32 provides an LFECP33E-3FN672C device, as well as a range of on-board memories available for use by a design running within that device.

The NanoBoard NB2 provides application-specific plug-in peripheral boards to give complete flexibility in system architecture and provide a simple and cost-effective method for rapid prototyping of hardware concepts.

The NanoBoard NB2 caters for the use of up to three peripheral boards, and is delivered with the following standard peripheral boards:

Audio/Video Peripheral Board (PB01)
- Composite and S-Video output and capture, 24-bit VGA output, high-performance I2S stereo audio codec
Mass Storage Peripheral Board (PB02)
- Compact Flash, SD card slot, ATA hard-drive interfaces
USB-IrDA-Ethernet Peripheral Board (PB03)
- 10/100 Ethernet interface, USB 2.0 interface, 4Mbits/sec IrDA

Kit Contents

Following are included with NanoBoard NB2DSK01:

The NanoBoard NB2 includes a 12-month subscription to an Altium Designer Soft Design license which is linked to the NanoBoard in the box. This license option provides functionality to quickly start designing FPGA-based embedded systems, including:

FPGA design entry in C, OpenBus, Schematic, VHDL and Verilog
VHDL simulation engine, integrated debugger and waveform viewer
Support for a range of 32-bit soft processors for use in FPGA design
A rich set of royalty-free IP core libraries including peripherals and user-configurable custom logic
Full software development tool chain with libraries and source code
Programmable FPGA-based instruments for hardware debug and deployment
Support for importing third-party FPGA IP cores, developing and reusing IP libraries

Key Features

Key Features of Altium NanoBoard NB2 :

Altium's Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01 has the following features:

Integrated colour TFT LCD panel (320x240) with touch screen that facilitates dynamic application interaction.
Stereo analog audio system with high-quality on-board amplifiers, mixer, line in/out and stereo speakers
Standard communication interfaces – RS-232RS-232 serial, CAN,PS/2 mini-DIN
SD card reader – for additional I/O flexibility including the ability to download a variety of files
Four channel, 8-bit ADC and 10-bit DAC, I2C-compatible
User definable PDA-style push button switches that function as generic design inputs
General purpose switches and LEDs
Programmable clock, 6 to 200 MHz
Power sensing system allows real-time monitoring of system and device power consumption
SPI Real-Time Clock with 3V battery back-up
Onboard memory accessible by NanoTalk Controller – 256K x 32-bit common-bus SRAM (1MB), 16M x 32-bit common-bus SDRAM (64MB), 16M x 16-bit common-bus 3.0V Page Mode Flash memory (32MB), 256K x 32-bit independent SRAM (1MB)
Dual User Board JTAG headers for direct interaction
Home/Reset button – Home button enables firmware to take control of TFT panel; Reset provides NanoBoard reset functionality
NanoTalk Controller – manages real time proprietary communication with Altium Designer, the board, and the NanoBoard firmware using a Xilinx® Spartan-3TM (XC3S1500-4FG676C) controller with JTAG accessible Flash configuration PROM
Master-Slave connectors for chaining multiple development boards – allowing multiple-FPGA system development
Board ID memory – 1-Wire® ID system uniquely identifies each daughter board and peripheral board
Power – Dual 5V DC power daisy-chain connectors with power switch, 5V DC power output connector, power supply test points for all supply levels available on the board, four GND points
High-speed PC interconnection through USB 2.0

Key Features of LatticeECP Daughter board DB32:

Altium's LatticeECP daughter board DB32 provides an LFECP33E-3FN672C device, as well as a range of on-board memories available for use by a design running within that device.

The Daughter Board DB32 has the following features:

LatticeECP FPGA (LFECP33E-3FN672C)
On-board memories available for use by FPGA design:
- 256K x 32-bit common-bus SRAM (1MByte
- 16M x 32-bit common-bus SDRAM (64MByte)
- 16M x 16-bit common-bus Flash memory (32MByte)
- Dual 256K x 16-bit independent SRAM (512KByte each)
1-Wire® memory device used to store board ID and related information
Three 100-way connectors for attachment to NB2DSK01 motherboard. These connectors provide:
- Interface to resources on the NB2DSK01 motherboard and plugged-in peripheral boards
- SPI bus interface
- I2C bus interface
- 1-Wire bus interface
- JTAG, power and additional control lines from the motherboard

Ordering Information

Products

Supplier	Part Number
Altium	12-400-NB2DSK01-DB3212-400-NB2DSK01-DB32

Associated Products

Supplier	Description	Product
Altium	LatticeECP	Daughter BoardDaughter Board
Altium	JTAG USB	ADAPTERADAPTER
ST Micro	Flash Memory	M25P80M25P80
Maxim	RS-232RS-232 Transceiver	MAX3232EUEMAX3232EUE
Maxim	Transceiver	CAN Bus
Maxim	ADC-IC	ADC
Maxim	DAC IC	DAC
Maxim	Current Sense	Amplifier
Xilinx	Spartan 3	FPGAFPGA
Spansion	Flash	Flash MemoryFlash Memory
Maxim	Switch Addressable	SwitchSwitch
Maxim	Power Supply IC	Power Supply
Micron	Memory	SDRAMSDRAM
Altium	AUDIO/VIDEO	BOARD, PERIPHERAL, PB01BOARD, PERIPHERAL, PB01
Altium	MASS STORAGE	BOARD, PERIPHERAL, PB02BOARD, PERIPHERAL, PB02
Altium	USB / IRDA / ETHERNET	BOARD, PERIPHERAL, PB03BOARD, PERIPHERAL, PB03

Similar Products

Supplier	Description	Support Device	Part Number
Altium	NANOBOARD KIT NB2 SPARTAN-3	Spartan 3	12-401-NB2DS-K01-DB3012-401-NB2DS-K01-DB30
Altium	NANOBOARD KIT NB2, CYCLONE II	Cyclone II	12-400-NB2DSK01-DB3112-400-NB2DSK01-DB31

Document List

Datasheet

Part Number	Description	Size
LFECP33E-3FN672C	LatticeECP3 Family Datasheet	1.8MB
DS2406	Dual Addressable Switch Plus 1Kb Memory	240KB
MT48LC16M16A2TG	Common-Bus SDRAM	2.9MB
S29GL256N11FFIV10	Common-Bus Flash memory	4.8MB
MAX8860	Linear Regulator	168KB
MAX1831EEE.MAX1831EEE.	Voltage Regulator	106KB

Application Notes

File Name	Size
TN1178 LatticeECP3 sysCLOCK PLL/DLL Design and Usage Guide	1.4MB
TN1182 LatticeECP3 sysDSP Usage Guide	865KB
TN1194 LatticeECP3 Marvell XAUI 10 Gbps Physical Layer Interoperability	735KB
TN1180 LatticeECP3 High-Speed I/O Interface	1.9MB

Hardware & Software

File Name	Size
Download the latest release of Altium Designer Viewer	129MB
Download the Altium Instrument Dashboard	31.7MB
Autotrax Freeware Version Download	821KB
Easytrax Freeware Download	485KB

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