Overview of the ftxl developer’s kit hardware, The dbc2c20 development board – Echelon FTXL Hardware User Manual
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FTXL Developer’s Kit Hardware
Overview of the FTXL Developer’s Kit Hardware
The FTXL Developer’s Kit requires the three hardware development boards
listed in Table 2. These boards are available from devboards GmbH,
can also contact EBV Elektronik Gmb
Table 2. FTXL Developer’s Kit Hardware
Board Name
Description
devboards Order Code
DBC2C20 Altera
Cyclone II Development
Board
Development board that includes the
Cyclone II FPGA device and user I/O
DBC2C20USBB or
DBC2C20USBB-IPN
FTXL Adapter Board
Adapter board between the 3.3 V
FPGA board and the 5 V FTXL
Transceiver board
DBE-ADAP
FTXL Transceiver Board Development board for the FTXL
Transceiver Chip
DBE-FT-PAR
The DBC2C20 development board includes an Altera USB-Blaster download
cable. Contact your Altera representative for information about acquiring a Nios
II development license.
For information about the DBC2C20 development board, see the
Datasheet
DBC2C20 Cyclone II Development Board
document, available from the
devboards Web site.
The DBC2C20 Development Board
To work with the Nios II processor for an FTXL device, you can use any of the
many available tools that support the Nios II family of embedded processors.
However, this document describes only the devboards GmbH DBC2C20 Altera
Cyclone II Development Board which is part of the FTXL Developer’s Kit, as
described in Table 3 on page 9.
The FTXL Developer’s Kit was built for the DBC2C20 development board. You
could use another development board, such as the Altera Nios II Development
Board, Cyclone II Edition, but because the connectors on the FTXL Adapter
Board were designed to match connectors on the DBC2C20 development board,
you must create ribbon-cable connections to match a different development
board. In addition, you must create your own hardware and software projects for
a different development environment.
The DBC2C20USBB-IPN package includes a 9.6 VA, 800 mA power supply that
is appropriate for European installations; for other geographies, you can use any
input power supply with a 2.1 mm pin, center-negative barrel connector, from 7.5
V to 24 V, such as the 9 V Echelon 78010R power supply.