1. 1 An Introduction to FPGA and SOPC Development Board SoC Design Flow and Tools Course Chih-Hao Tseng 2003/11/11

2. 2 FPGA & SOPC Development Kit in Embedded Systems Lab 1. Altera Nios Development Kit – Cyclone Edition For low cost SOPC 2. Altera Nios Development Kit – Stratix Edition For high performance SOPC 3. Altera University Program Design Laboratory Package(UP2) For teaching purpose or beginner 4. Microtime PreSOC Development Kit - Creator For SOPC and ICE supported

3. 3 Altera Nios Development Kit – Cyclone Edition

4. 4 Altera Nios Development Kit, Cyclone Edition Nios development board, Cyclone edition Nios embedded processor configurable CPU core GNUPro compiler and debugger from Red Hat Library of standard microprocessor peripherals SOPC Builder system development tool Quartus® II design software Figure 1. Nios Development Kit, Cyclone Edition (source: http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-nios_1C20.html)

5. 5 Altera UP2 Development Board

6. 6 Altera University Program Design Laboratory Package MAX+PLUS II development software, version 10.1 UP2 development board with a FLEX 10K®EPF10K70 device ByteBlaster™ download cable Power supply Rapid Prototyping of Digital Design textbook by James O. Hamblen & Michael D. Furman Figure source: http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/A LTERA/altera.htm

7. 7 Microtime PreSOC Development Kit - Creator board Figure source:http://www.microtime.com.tw/product/SOC/Creator.pdf

8. 8 Microtime PreSOC Development Kit - Creator S3C4510 ARM7 TDMI RISC CPU Running uClinux (For no MMU processor) CMOS Camera Module Current measurement Module Codec function with speaker.Microphone circuit Graphic LCD, 4X4 Keypad, RS232C, RJ-45 10/100 Ethernet, USB 1.1

9. 9 Microtime - WINeZ ARM ICE Domingo IDE Support ARM7 Series O.S. debug Real-time trace Full screen on-line assemble, disassemble Figure source: http://www.microtime.com.tw/product/arm-m.htm

10. 10 Reference Websites Altera Nios Development Kit – Cyclone Edition http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-nios_1C20.html Altera University Program Design Laboratory Package http://www.altera.com/education/univ/kits/unv-kits.html http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~hamblen/ALTERA/altera.htm Microtime PreSOC Development Kit - Creator http://www.microtime.com.tw/product/product.htm