Chapter 1. Introduction; General Description; Board Components - Altera Stratix II Reference Manual

General
Description
Altera Corporation
August 2006
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The Altera Stratix II DSP development board is included with the DSP
Development Kit, Stratix II Edition (ordering codes DSP-DEVKIT-2S60
and DSP-DEVKIT-2S180). This board is a development platform for
high-performance digital signal processing (DSP) designs, and features
the Stratix II EP2S60/EP2S180 device in a 1,020-pin package.
The Stratix II DSP development board provides a hardware platform that
designers can use to start developing DSP systems based on Stratix II
devices. Combined with DSP intellectual property (IP) from Altera and
Altera Megafunction Partners Program (AMPP
quickly develop powerful DSP systems. Altera's unique OpenCore
technology allows users to evaluate MegaCore
prior to licensing them.
DSP Builder includes a library for the Stratix II EP2S60/EP2S180 DSP
development boards. This library allows algorithm development,
simulation, and verification on the board, all from within the MathWorks
MATLAB/Simulink system-level design tool. Additionally, the Stratix II
DSP development board includes a Texas Instruments' EVM (cross-
platform) daughter card connector, which enables development and
verification of FPGA co-processors for off loading and accelerating
compute-bound algorithms from programmable DSP processors.

Board Components

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Analog I/O
Two 12-bit 125-MHz A/D converters
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Two 14-bit 165-MHz D/A converters
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One 8-bit, 180 megapixels-per-second triple D/A converter for
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VGA output
One 96-KHz Stereo Audio coder/decoder (CODEC)
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Memory subsystem
1 MByte of 10-ns asynchronous SRAM configured as a 32-bit bus
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16 MBytes of flash memory configured as an 8-bit bus
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32 MBytes of SDRAM memory configured as a 64-bit bus
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CompactFlash connector supporting ATA and IDE access modes
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Configuration options
On-board configuration using 16 MBytes of flash memory and
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an Altera EPM7256 MAX
Download configuration data using an USB Blaster
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cable
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Chapter 1. Introduction

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