Altera Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit Cyclone III Edition - Manual (Page 8)

Altera Corporation Development Board Version 1.0. 1–2
July 2010 Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition
Getting Started
Kit Contents The Nios II Embedded Evaluation kit will acquainting you with the
Nios II processor, the hardware and software development flows and the
robust embedded ecosystem of operating systems, middleware, IP and
third party offerings that support the Nios II processor.
To this end the kit features:
■ Pre-built embedded processor systems that serve as starting points
to accelerate hardware development
● Nios II Standard Processor System (Standard)
● Nios II Video Based Embedded Processor System (Video)
■ Pre-built embedded applications with source code to serve as
examples for software device driver development
● Altera Application Selector with embedded Web Server
● Altera Picture Viewer
● Altera Mandelbrot
■ Hardware and Software Tutorials to learn the embedded
development flows
● My first FPGA design
● My first Nios II Software tutorial
■ Ready-to-Run Demonstration applications from Altera’s partners
● IP: SD Card Controller (El Camino) , Graphics Engines (TES,
Imagem, PlanetWeb)
● Operating systems: MicroC-OS II (Micrium Evaluation
Licenses) , uC-Linux (SLS)
● Middleware: Filesystems (El Camino, Micrium, SLS), Graphics
Libraries (Micrium)
■ Altera Evaluation IP license cores and software packages for
embedded development
● Nios II IP Core (Evaluation Core)
● DDR SDRAM Memory IP Core (Evaluation Core)
● TSE MAC IP Core (Evaluation Core)
● NicheStack TCP-IP Network Stack, Nios II Edition (Evaluation
Core)