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Altera Corporation
Development Board Version 1.0.
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July 2010
Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition
About This Kit
the MAX II CPLD to provide a full range of functionality on the daughter
card over a limited number of pins on the HSMC connector. (See the LCD
Multimedia HSMC Reference Manual for details).
About this User
Guide
This user guide describes how to start using the Altera
®
Embedded
Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III edition including unpacking the
kit, installing required software, and running the Application Selector
utility and other design examples. Using this guide, you can do the
following:
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Inspect the contents of the kit
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Set up, power up, and verify correct operation of the development
board
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Install the Quartus II Web Edition software
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Install the Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III
Edition
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Set up licensing
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Run the Application selector utility
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Find the example processor systems and example software
applications
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Find and use the tutorials
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Find and use the ready-to-run SD Card demos
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Find the Frequently asked questions
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For a full description of the development boards and their design and
use, refer to the
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This user guide provides an overview of some of the applications. In the
appendices more detail about key hardware components and the
structure of the application selector utility have been presented.
However, we opted to provide extensive source-code comments rather
than formal documentation regarding the other applications.
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We are interested in knowing if this structure for the
documentation is adequate for you to be able to develop your
applications. If you have comments or suggestions on what we
can do to improve the user experience through our
documentation, contact us through
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To ensure that you have the most up-to-date information on this
product, refer to the
page.