Altera FPGA Development Kit Cyclone IV

Description: INTEL/ALTERA FPGA DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM The DueProLogic is a complete FPGA Development System designed to easily get the user started learning and creating projects. The DueProLogic makes programmable logic easy with an all inclusive development platform. It includes an Intel Cyclone IV FPGA, on board programming, four megabit configuration flash, and an SD connector for add on memory. You can create your HDL code, program it into the flash and interact with the hardware via a Windows PC. DueProLogic Features: 144 pin Intel Cyclone IV /E 66MHz oscillator for synchronizing data transfers 100MHz oscillator for user circuits Two Synchronous Switching Power supplies 1.2V and 3.3V 36 User LEDS, Green 6,272 logical elements/cells, 270Kbit internal RAM On Board Flash, 4Mb serial memory chip FTDI FT2232H chip for both active-serial programming the FPGA and serial communications with Host PC Stackable Headers compatible with the Arduino Due, including its 2x36 pin header Two User Pushbuttons SD Card Connector This is the FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) development board and runtime environment you have been waiting for to get started with programmable logic. DueProLogic FPGA Development System The DueProLogic (DPL) and its integrated development and distinctive runtime environment has been specifically designed for Electrical Engineering students, hobbyists, and entrepreneurs prototyping/developing/running projects involving logic, with the added opportunity, should it be needed for your project, of readily mating with a widely used microprocessor board, the Arduino Due, and other ARM Cortex compatibles. The combination of FPGA programmable logic and microcontroller is unbeatable in an educational student learning setting and in many other projects where each can bring its strength. FPGA Training The DPL gives learners the opportunity to have an appropriate hands-on approach when learning logic, exploring different iterations of schematic/code designs with simple uploads of the design, and the operation of those circuits with relatively easy runtime passing of project parameters and data, and an abundance of headers that can interface to external components, without having to spend inordinate amounts of time reading datasheets, designing the right combinations of gates on multi-gate chips, and building/revising/debugging/revising repeatedly… spaghetti bowls of wires and chips on multiple breadboards to connect to those same external components. With the DPL’s FPGA, projects can also more easily be attempted which rely on asynchronous, exceedingly fast, and even multiple separate concurrent logic structures operating in parallel which would have traditionally required a plethora of chip gates or multiple high speed microprocessors to implement parallel processes. Logic circuits are implemented within the FPGA at few- nanosecond gate speeds and highly parallel in operation, effectively a few hundred MHz; Microprocessors often rely on inherently slower single threaded program loops with interrupt servicing, which is typically much slower. Programmable logic is today’s technology for logic learners and implementers, replacing discrete logic chips. FPGA Projects The DPL allows the learner to be more productive and better focus on the underlying logic and integration with the non-logic aspects of non-trivial projects. Projects and solving real-world applications might involve: Basic labs exploring digital design and logic devices, possibly interfacing to non-logic electrical components Embedded system controls (or simulations of common devices like a microwave oven) Robotics and other portable/mobile projects, especially those that involve significant or blazingly fast processing and responsive DC motor control requiring precise timing of multiple motors concurrently The mating between FPGA and microprocessor 3.3V compatible Arduino shields that bring project-related functionality Add-on modules from EarthPeopleTechnology (EPT) and others (or your own) that bring specific project-related functionality Home environmental controls Video/Audio stream processing Bit-coin mining And other projects with a wide variety of levels of logic and electrical design complexity. DueProLogic Overview The DPL is a complete FPGA development environment. It includes a powerful Intel Cyclone IV FPGA, High-Speed USB interface chip, Full SD Card interface connector, and 4Mb Configuration Flash (for the FPGA). The USB interface chip is an FT2232H with Dual Serial Channels. One channel is dedicated to loading the configuration Flash for the FPGA. The second channel provides a high speed interface for bi-directional communications with the FPGA. Once the configuration Flash is loaded with the users synthesized code, a reset will cause the FPGA to read the Flash and load up the stored image into the FPGA. The block diagram shows all of the parts of the DueProLogic. There are two main power supplies, +1.2V and +3.3V. The +1.2V powers the core of the FPGA while the +3.3V powers the Input/Outputs of the FPGA as well as provides power for user circuits. The DPL contains two oscillators, 66MHz and 100MHz. The 66MHz oscillator is used to provide clocking for the EPT ActiveHost USB communications core. The 100MHz oscillator can be used by the user clocked up using one of the onboard Clock-DLL modules. Development Environment The DPL User Manual comes complete with instructions to set up all the drivers, the Intel Quartus development environment, and get started creating FPGA projects. The User Manual walks the user step by step from start to finish of the first FPGA project. Quartus Prime Lite software is free. It allows compiling user code, assigning pins, project setup, programming and other items. The DPL kit includes the EPT ActiveHost core for the DPL, to facilitate communication between the PC and DPL while the DPL is running a developed project. The kit also EPT has developed a .dll that allows Quartus Prime Lite to directly program the DPL in the same way USB-Blaster works with other Intel populated development boards. Quartus Prime Lite for Windows, which is the Intel Programmable Logic development environment allowing for the development, simulation, and debugging of FPGA code by drawing logic schematics or by using Verilog or VHDL (and other variants) hardware description language (HDL), open core modules, and more specific Intellectual Property (IP) from EPT and others. Within the Quartus environment, EPT supplies the EPT_Blaster.dll that allows Quartus Prime to directly program the DPL in the same way Intel’s USB-Blaster works with other Intel populated development boards. The EPT GUI/Data Transfer Library .dll for Windows that allows applications developed with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Express (and others) PC application development environments, to communicate with the DPL at runtime using a GUI interface. The EPT File Transfer core for the DPL, which is the code that resides within the DPL’s Cyclone FPGA to allow run-time data exchange with the PC. The sum is a very rich development environment for the DPL. A comprehensive user setup and use manual and sample projects with code are available on the EPT website. Configuring the FPGA The FPGA on the DPL can be programmed with the HDL project created by the user. Configuration is quick and easy. All that is required is a standard USB cable with a Micro Type B connector, and the EPT Blaster Driver DLL installed on the PC. There are no extra parts to buy - just plug in the USB cable and connect the DueProLogic to the PC. The DPL Configuration Flash is programmed using the Quartus development environment and the EPT Blaster Driver. Once the the Configuration Flash is programmed. A reset will cause the FPGA to begin configuring itself using the Flash. The board comes preloaded with Blinky, the test that each board goes through before being shipped with conductive foam in a static-control bag. Also included with the product is a downloadeable DVD with the needed drivers, User Manual, Data Sheets, Projects, Source Files and Schematics.

Price: 71.99 USD

Location: Burbank, California

End Time: 2024-10-28T06:08:23.000Z

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