Chapter 1. Getting Started; Introduction - Altera Cyclone III FPGA User Manual

Introduction

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Altera Corporation
July 2010
Welcome to the Altera
full-featured field-programmable gate array (FPGA) development board,
hardware and software development tools, documentation, and
accessories needed to begin FPGA development.
The development board includes an Altera Cyclone III FPGA and comes
preconfigured with a hardware reference design stored in flash memory.
You can use the development board as a platform to prototype a variety
of FPGA designs.
The starter kit provides an integrated control environment that includes
a software controller in a control panel application, a USB command
controller, a multi-port SRAM/DDR SDRAM/flash memory controller,
and example designs specified in Verilog code. You can use this design as
a starting point for test designs.
This user guide addresses the following topics:
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How to set up, power up, and verify correct operation of the
development board.
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How to install the Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit.
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How to install the Altera
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How to set up and use the control panel, a graphical user interface
(GUI), to manipulate components on the board, implement
applications.
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How to configure the Cyclone III FPGA.
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How to set up and run example designs.
For complete details on the development board, refer to the
Cyclone III FPGA Starter Board Reference
Core Version a.b.c variable
1. Getting Started
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Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit, which includes a
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Quartus II Web Edition software.
Manual.
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