The RoadTest for Altera NIOS II Cyclone III Evaluation Kit is now completed.

Please see below for details on the kit and read reviews by the lucky members who had an opportunity to try it for free!

Combining a Cyclone III Starter Board and a  touch-screen LCD in a unique plexiglass case, the Nios II evaluation  kit allows developers to launch example applications, such as networking  and audio and image processing, with the touch of a finger. It also  serves as an ideal development platform for software designers new to  FPGA-based processors.

The kit includes the Nios II Embedded Design Suite (EDS), a  complete design suite for embedded software development, and several  tutorials and design examples (with full source code), making it easy to  develop software for the Nios II embedded processor. Ten design  examples from Altera and several embedded partners are included with the  kit, showcasing many of the unique benefits gained by designing with  FPGAs. These examples include hardware acceleration of image processing  applications and a remote FPGA update design that demonstrates how FPGA  developers can update hardware designs over the Internet to add new  product features or deliver bug fixes. 

The Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition lets  designers experiment with a wide range of applications by providing a  diverse array of memory and I/O interfaces, including:

• Altera  Cyclone III EP3C25 FPGA with 25K logic elements
• 32Mbyte DDR SDRAM
• 1Mbyte SSRAM
• 16Mbyte flash
• 10/100  Ethernet (PHY)
• 800 x 480  color touch-panel LCD
• SD card I/F  (with SD flash card)
• Audio output
• Audio input
• Microphone input
• Composite  video input
• VGA output
• PS/2 interface
• RS-232

The kit also includes cables and accessories, a Nios II Evaluation  Kit CD-ROM (with software tutorials and examples) and the Altera  Complete Design Suite DVD featuring the Nios II EDS, Altera MegaCore  intellectual property (IP) library, and Quartus II Web Edition design  software.

Related Documents:

Design Handbook

Technical Specifications

Application Note- ALTERA- Accelerating Nios II Networking Applications- AN440

Reference Design- Altera- VGA Controller and Nios II Processor Reference Design

VideoStreaming- Altera-Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition

Technical document : Innovative Embedded Evaluation Platform

FPGA Design Guidebook - FPGA & CPLD Development Tools & Design Flow

Graphics Processing in Automotive Systems

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Users who RoadTested: (full details will be posted shortly)