Chapter 1. Introduction; General Description - Altera Cyclone III Reference Manual

General
Description
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Altera Corporation
April 2012
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The Cyclone III starter board provides a hardware platform that offers a
unique opportunity to customize your development environment via
expansion connectors and daughtercards, as well as evaluate the
feature-rich, low-power Altera
For more functionality, you can expand the starter board through
daughtercards connected to the Altera
(HSMC) connector.
For the latest information about available HMSC daughtercards, go to
www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-index.html.
The main features of the Cyclone III starter board are:
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Low-power consumption Altera Cyclone III EP3C25 chip in a
324-pin FineLine BGA (FBGA) package
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Expandable through HSMC connector
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32-megabyte (MB) DDR SDRAM
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16-MB parallel flash device for configuration and storage
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1-MB high-speed SSRAM memory
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Four user push-button switches
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Four user LEDs
The main advantages of the Cyclone III starter board are:
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Facilitates a fast and successful FPGA design experience with
example designs and demonstrations.
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Directly configure and communicate with the Cyclone III device via
the on-board USB-Blaster
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Active parallel flash configuration
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Low power consumption
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Cost-effective modular design
1. Introduction
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Cyclone III device.
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High Speed Mezzanine Card
circuitry and JTAG header
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Preliminary