About this kit, Introduction, Key features and benefits – Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition User Manual
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Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition
1. About This Kit
Introduction
The Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition is a
complete development platform for prototyping embedded systems on
Altera’s low-cost, low-power FPGAs. The kit comprises of three
components, a Cyclone III 3C120 FPGA base board, an extensive suite of
embedded peripheral interfaces available as part of the LCD Multimedia
High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC) and finally a multi-purpose
daughter-card for debugging software and developing USB and SD card
interfaces, for example, the HSMC to Santa Cruz-USB-Mictor (H2SUM)
card.
The Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition is in
itself an embedded system. On power up, the development kit will allow
you to select, via the LCD touch panel, one of a menu of “ready-to-run”
demo applications. In addition, if you connect the board to a network
port, then it displays an IP address to which it serves a web page that you
can now program a new application to the on-board flash. All this is part
of the factory design, referred to as the Application Selector which has
been provided to you in source form for use as a starting point for your
own embedded system development.
As part of this development kit, you’ll find everything you need;
hardware, example processor systems, example software applications,
FPGA and software development tools and documentation to accelerate
your embedded system development.
Key Features
and Benefits
In order to accelerate embedded development, this kit features:
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Development Hardware
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Cyclone III Development Base Board for embedded prototyping
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HSMC connections to interface with a wide range of
daughter cards for a variety of applications (video, broad-
cast, Ethernet etc)
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LCD Multimedia HSMC to extend development to include
common embedded peripherals such as SD Card, LCD Color
Touch Panel, PS2, Video, UART and Ethernet
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Multi-purpose HSMC for software debugging and developing
interfaces for USB and SD
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Design Examples