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Embedded Systems Board Solutions
Altera Embedded System
Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition
Altera Corporation
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 FPGA family.
This kit is an ideal choice for developers running
Linux on the Nios® II processor. Download the Nios II
Hardware Reference Design for Linux, Cyclone III
(EP3C120) Edition Release R15 to give your design a
head start.
Features
• Altera Cyclone III EP3C120F780
• Development Hardware
 A Cyclone III FPGA-based board with
high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors
to interface to a wide range of daughtercards
 LCD multimedia HSMC to interface to common
peripherals such as standard definition (SD)
card, LCD color touch panel, etc.Multipurpose
HSMC for software debugging and developing
interfaces for USB 2.0 and Santa Cruz
daughter cards
• The reference design includes:
• Quartus II project file compatible with Quartus II
software version 9.0 and later
• Cyclone III FPGA development board design files
• U-boot files
• Out-Of-Box Experience
• This board is, in itself, an embedded system. On
power-up, you can load a menu of “ready-to-run”
demo applications. When connected to a network
port, the Board Update Portal web page is served.
From there, you can remotely update the board
with a new design. See the user guide for details.
• This design is provided as a prebuilt processor
system called the Nios II EP3C120 microprocessor
system with LCD controller.
Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit
(NEEK), Cyclone III Edition
Altera Corporation
The Nios® II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone® III
Edition makes evaluating Altera's embedded
solutions easier than ever. You can evaluate a dozen
different processor systems targeting the low-cost,
low-power Cyclone III FPGA by simply using the LCD
color touch panel to scroll through and load your demo
of choice.
These processor systems showcase the unique
benefits of FPGA-based processors such as reducing
bill of material (BOM) costs by integrating powerful
graphics engines within the FPGA, reducing
operating costs by upgrading your system over the
Internet, or increasing system performance while
reducing power using the C-to-Hardware (C2H)
acceleration compiler.
The Nios II Embedded Evaluation kit, Cyclone III
Edition comes with a comprehensive suite for
software development—the Nios II Embedded Design
Suite (EDS)—as well as sample Nios II processor
systems that include full source code.
Features
• Cyclone III Starter Board
 Cyclone III EP3C25F324 FPGA
 32 MB of DDR SDRAM1 MB of synchronous
SRAM
 16 MB of Intel P30/P33 flash
 Clocking : 50-MHz, on-board oscillator
 Six push buttons total, four user controlled
 Seven LEDs total, four user controlled
• LCD daughter card
 Color LCD touch-screen display (800 x 480)
 24-bit CD-quality audio CODEC with line-in,
line-out, and microphone-in jacks
 10/100 Ethernet physical layer/media access
control (PHY/MAC)
• Connectors
 VGA output
 Composite TV-in
 Audio-out, audio-in, and microphone-in
 SD card
 Serial connector (RS-232 DB9 port)
 PS/2
 Ethernet connector (RJ-45)
• Nios II Evaluation Kit CD-ROM