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Cyclone III USB3.0 Board
ALTIMA Corp.
Altima’s “Cyclone III USB 3.0 Bard” is an evaluation
board for USB 3.0 interface by combining FPGA and
USB 3.0 PHY devices. The user of this board can
attain higher flexibility in setting up different
evaluation configurations in USB 3.0 controller
functions implemented in Cyclone III low cost FPGA.
Also, the user can utilize HSMC connector to bridge to
various interface standards at the same time.
Features
• Altera
 Cyclone III FPGA EP3C80F780C6
 Configuration ROM EPCS64
• Texas Instruments (TI) - TSUB1310 USB 3.0 PHY
 Can be configured for both host cost and
function controllers
• External IO
 Altera’s standard connector HSMC (High Speed
Mezzanine Connector)
• CPU
 ALTRA Nios II (32-bit RISC)
• Memory
 Flash 16M Bytes
 DDR2-400 128M Bytes x2
 MRAM Everspin MR2A16AYS35 512KByte
• I/O Interface
 USB 3.0 Standard-A Connector
 RS232C
• User I/F
 Push SW
 DIP SW
 LED
 7-Seg
 Char LCD
• AC Adapter (12V DC-IN)
Cyclone III Base
Board (Aquamarine)
GPIO Daughter Board
ALTIMA Corp.
ALTIMA Corp.
Altima’s Cyclone III Base Board is a platform for the
customers designing with FPGA for the first time.
The peripheral user interface such as 7-Seg, LEDs,
and various switches provides highly visible
environment for design circuitry. Also, the on board
HSMC connector provides flexibility in expanding
various I/O interfaces by connecting daughter boards
such as the option GPIO and EPSD boards from
Altima.
Features
• Altera
Cyclone III FPGA EP3C16F484C8, EP3C40F484C8N
or EP3C55F484C8N

EPCS4 configuration ROM
• Everspin MRAM (Magnetoresistive RAM) 4Mb
(512K ×8 bit) MR2A08AM35 as instruction program
memory for Nios II processor
• DDR2-333 128MB
• FLASH ROM (16M byte) MR2A08AM35
• IDT Versa Clock
• 3.3V interface GPIO HSMC daughter board (option)
• Serial connector (RS232 DB9)
• 7-Seg display x 2
• LED
• DIP Switch
• Push Switch
• Character LCD interface connector (character LCD
is provided separately)
•
HSMC expand IO connector
GPIO Daughter Board (option) connects with
Cyclone III Base Board from ALTIMA Corp. through
HSMC connector. While HSMC’s interface is
specified to be at 2.5V, the IOs from HSMC can be
used at 3.3V by using this board.
Features
• External IO: Altera HSMC Connector
•
Voltage Level Transistor: TXB0108 (8 bit
bidirectional type)
 2.5V HSMC  3.3V GPIO
• 88 pin User IO