Altera LCD Multimedia HSMC - Manual (Page 4)

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August 2008 Preliminary
1. Overview
General
Description This manual provides comprehensive information about the LCD
Multimedia High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC). This HSMC is a full-
featured multimedia board that can be used for video, audio, and
ethernet applications with many of the Altera FPGA Starter and
Development boards that support the HSMC connectors. For example,
see
Figures 1–1
.
The LCD Multimedia HSMC was created to provide a set of interfaces
including LCD touchscreen, VGA out, composite video in, audio in/out,
microphone in, plus Ethernet, SD-Card, PS/2, and RS-232 interfaces. The
purpose of this reference manual is to describe each of these hardware
interfaces on the LCD HSMC.
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For the latest information about available HSMC boards, go to
www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-index.html .
Figure 1–1. LCD Multimedia HSMC in Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit
The top view of the LCD Multimedia HSMC is shown in Figure 1–2 .
Cyclone III FPGA Starter Board
LCD Multimedia HSMC