Specifications

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Hardware Reference Manual
Specifications
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EPXA10 Development Board
Features
■ Powerful development board for embedded processor PLD designs
– Features an EPXA10F1020C2 device
– Supports intellectual property-based (IP-based) designs using a
microprocessor
■ Industry-standard interconnections
– 10/100 megabits per second (Mbps) Ethernet with full and half
duplexing
– Two 3.3-V, 32-bit peripheral component interconnect (PCI)
connectors
 These features require additional IP blocks; contact Altera
for further details.
– Two RS-232 ports (data terminal equipment (DTE))
■ Memory subsystem
– 16-Mbyte flash memory
– Up to 512-Mbyte single data rate (SDR) SDRAM in a DIMM
socket
■ Multiple clocks for communications system design
■ Multiple ports for configuration and debugging
– IEEE Std. 1149.1 Joint Test Action Group (JTAG)
– Support for configuring the EPXA10 device using flash memory,
an EPC2, or a MasterBlaster
™
or ByteBlasterMV
™
cable
■ Expansion headers for greater flexibility and capacity
– Four expansion headers for daughter-card access
– 3.3-V/5-V/12-V/–12-V expansion/prototype headers to
support up to 502 user I/O pins
■ Additional user-interface features
– One user-definable 9-bit dual in-line package (DIP) switch block
– Four user-definable push-button switches
– Eight user-definable LEDs
■ Test points and logic analyzer connectors provided to facilitate
system development
■ Trace port connections
General
Description
Designers can use the EPXA10 development board as a desktop
development system. It provides a hardware platform to start developing
embedded systems immediately; and delivers clocks, debugging, and
trace facilities to support the system under development in an ARM
®
-
based EPXA10 embedded processor PLD.