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Altera Corporation

Development Board Version 1.0.

1–6

July 2010

Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III Edition

About This Kit

the MAX II CPLD to provide a full range of functionality on the daughter
card over a limited number of pins on the HSMC connector. (See the LCD
Multimedia HSMC Reference Manual for details).

About this User
Guide

This user guide describes how to start using the Altera

®

Embedded

Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III edition including unpacking the
kit, installing required software, and running the Application Selector
utility and other design examples. Using this guide, you can do the
following:

Inspect the contents of the kit

Set up, power up, and verify correct operation of the development
board

Install the Quartus II Web Edition software

Install the Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit, Cyclone III
Edition

Set up licensing

Run the Application selector utility

Find the example processor systems and example software
applications

Find and use the tutorials

Find and use the ready-to-run SD Card demos

Find the Frequently asked questions

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For a full description of the development boards and their design and
use, refer to the

Cyclone III Development Board Reference Manual

and

LCD

Multimedia HSMC Reference Manual

.

This user guide provides an overview of some of the applications. In the
appendices more detail about key hardware components and the
structure of the application selector utility have been presented.
However, we opted to provide extensive source-code comments rather
than formal documentation regarding the other applications.

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We are interested in knowing if this structure for the
documentation is adequate for you to be able to develop your
applications. If you have comments or suggestions on what we
can do to improve the user experience through our
documentation, contact us through

[email protected]

.

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To ensure that you have the most up-to-date information on this
product, refer to the

Altera Embedded Systems Development Kit,

Cyclone III Edition

page.