Altera Cyclone III LS FPGA - Manual (Page 19)

© October 2009 Altera Corporation Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit User Guide
6. Board Test System
Introduction
The kit includes an example design and application called the Board Test System to
test the functionality of the Cyclone III LS FPGA development board. The application
provides an easy-to-use interface to alter functional settings and observe the results.
You can use the application to test board components, modify functional parameters,
observe performance, and measure power usage. The application is also useful as a
reference for designing systems. To install the application, follow the steps in
“Installing the Cyclone III LS FPGA Development Kit” on page 3–2 .
The application provides access to the following Cyclone III LS FPGA development
board features:
 General purpose I/O (GPIO)
 SRAM
 Flash memory
 DDR2 memory
 HSMC connectors
 Programmable oscillator
The application allows you to exercise most of the board components. While using the
application, you reconfigure the FPGA several times with test designs specific to the
functionality you are testing.
A GUI runs on the PC which communicates over the JTAG bus to a test design
running in the Cyclone III LS device.
Figure 6–1 shows the initial GUI for a board that
is in the factory configuration.