Altera Nios II - Manual (Page 12)

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Nios II Development Kit Getting Started User Guide May 2007
The Nios Development Board
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The license for the Nios II Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition
and Stratix II Edition includes a license for the DDR SDRAM
Controller MegaCore. The other cores in the MegaCore IP
Library are fully functional for evaluation, but have a timeout
feature. You must purchase a full license to ship a product that
includes any other MegaCores.
The Nios
Development
Board The Nios development board will be your steady companion through
much of your development effort with the Nios II processor. Hardware
designers can use the Nios development board as a platform to prototype
complex embedded systems. Software developers can use the Nios II
reference design preprogrammed on the development board to begin
prototyping software immediately.
The Nios development board comes pre-configured with a Nios II
processor hardware reference design and a software reference design
stored in flash memory.
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For complete details on the Nios development board, refer to the
appropriate Nios Development Board Reference Manual.
Setting Up the Nios Development Board
First, you will set up the Nios development board. The Nios development
board will show activity to verify that it is alive and functioning correctly.
Figure 1–1 shows a Nios Development Board, Cyclone II Edition with the
power cable, LCD module, and USB Blaster cable attached. For all Nios
development boards, the relative location and orientation of the cables is
the same.