Altera Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Board - Manual (Page 10)

1–2 Reference Manual Altera Corporation
Cyclone II FPGA Starter Development Board October 2006
Introduction
Hardware Features
The development board has the following hardware features:
■ Altera Cyclone ® II EP2C20 FPGA device
■ Altera EPCS4 Serial Configuration device
■ USB-Blaster controller chip set for programming and user API
control, supporting both JTAG and Active Serial (AS) programming
modes
■ 512-KByte SRAM
■ 8-MByte SDRAM
■ 4-MByte Flash memory
■ SD Flash Card socket
■ 4 Push button switches
■ 10 Toggle switches
■ 10 Red user LEDs
■ 8 Green user LEDs
■ 50 MHz, 27 MHz, and 24 MHz oscillators for clock sources
■ 24-bit CD-quality audio CODEC with line-in, line-out, and
microphone-in jacks
■ VGA DAC (4-bit resistor network) with VGA-out connector
■ RS-232 transceiver and 9-pin connector
■ PS/2 mouse/keyboard connector
■ Two 40-pin expansion headers with resistor protection
■ 7.5V DC adapter or a USB cable (provided in the kit) for power
Software Features
Flexible control of the development board and Altera hardware and
software tools provide an effective FPGA-based design environment. In
addition to the hardware features, the development board provides
software support for standard I/O interfaces and a control panel facility
for accessing various components. The kit also provides software for a
number of demonstrations that illustrate the advanced capabilities of the
development board.
Use of the development board requires familiarity with the Altera
Quartus II software. Tutorials for the Quartus II software and for the
Cyclone II FPGA Starter Board are available on the Altera web site or on
the included development kit CD-ROM in the Examples directory.
Block Diagram The block diagram of the development board ( Figure 1–2 ) shows that for
maximum user flexibility, all the blocks connect through the Cyclone II
FPGA device. Thus, the user can implement any system design by
configuring the FPGA.