The DE0 Development and Education board is designed in a compact size with all the essential tools for novice users to gain knowledge in areas of digital logic, computer organization and FPGAs. It is equipped with Altera Cyclone III 3C16 FPGA device, which offers 15,408 LEs. The board provides 346 user I/O pins, and is loaded with a rich set of features that makes it suitable to be used for advanced university and college courses, as well as the development of sophisticated digital systems. The DE0 combines the Altera low-power, low-cost, and high performance Cyclone III FPGA to control the various features of the DE0 Board. The DE0 Development Board includes software, reference designs, and accessories required to ensure the user simple access in evaluating their DE0 Board.
FPGA:
Cyclone III 3C16 FPGA
15,408 LEs
56 M9K Embedded Memory Blocks
504K total RAM bits
56 embedded multipliers
4 PLLs
346 user I/O pins
FineLine BGA 484-pin package
Memory:
SDRAM
One 8-Mbyte Single Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic RAM memory chip
Flash memory
4-Mbyte NOR Flash memory
Support Byte (8-bits)/Word (16-bits) mode
SD card socket
Provides both SPI and SD 1-bit mode SD Card access
Interface:
Built-in USB Blaster circuit
On-board USB Blaster for programming
Using the Altera EPM240 CPLD
Altera Serial Configuration device
Altera EPCS4 serial EEPROM chip
Pushbutton switches
3 pushbutton switches
Slide switches
10 Slide switches
General User Interfaces
10 Green color LEDs
4 seven-segment displays
16x2 LCD Interface (Not include LCD module)
Clock inputs
50-MHz oscillator
VGA output
Uses a 4-bit resistor-network DAC
With 15-pin high-density D-sub connector
Supports up to 1280x1024 at 60-Hz refresh rate
Serial ports
One RS-232 port (Without DB-9 serial connector)
One PS/2 port (Can be used through a PS/2 Y Cable to allow you to connect a keyboard and mouse to one port)
Two 40-pin expansion headers
72 Cyclone III I/O pins, as well as 8 power and ground lines, are brought out to two 40-pin expansion connectors
40-pin header is designed to accept a standard 40-pin ribbon cable used for IDE hard drives
Size: 99.7 X 128.02 mm
