Development Kits

The economical Cyclone® III FPGA Starter Kit is easy to use, and an ideal introduction for users who have never designed with FPGAs before. For experienced FPGA designers checking out the Cyclone III architecture, you'll love building systems leveraging the 60 percent (on average) faster performance and 50 percent lower power that Cyclone FPGAs offer over the competition. Several design examples included in the kit make for a quick "out-of-the-box" evaluation experience.

The Arrow Electronics Low Power Reference Platform features the new Cyclone III FPGA from Altera, with power and other analog solutions from Linear Technology geared towards power sensitive applications.

Altera’s Cyclone® III FPGA Development Kit combines the largest density low-cost, low-power FPGA available with a robust set of memories and user interfaces. The kit dramatically reduces the design and verification portion of your project, whether it’s for automotive, consumer, wireless communications, video processing, or another high-volume, cost-sensitive application.

The ArriaTM GX FPGA Development Kit delivers a complete environment for the development and testing of designs implementing high-speed serial interfaces in Arria GX FPGAs. This development kit is built on a PCIe form-factor card and targets the development of designs utilizing PCI Express x1 and x4, Gigabit Ethernet, and/or Serial RapidIOTM (SRIO) protocols.

A complete digital design lab at your fingertips! Equipped with an Altera MAX II EPM 2 210F 324 device and on-board USB Blaster circuit, the MAXII Micro Kit provides users the best and largest CPLD design resource. MAXII Micro board can also be used as a USB Blaster cable by leveraging its on-board USB Blaster circuit

The Audio Video Development Kit, Stratix® II GX Edition delivers a complete video and image processing development environment for design engineers. The kit facilitates the entire design process, from design conception through hardware implementation.

The Audio Video Development Kit, Stratix II GX Edition includes the Stratix II EP2SGX90 Audio Video development board, Quartus® II development software, evaluation intellectual property (IP) cores—including the Video and Image Processing Suite—the serial digital interface (SDI) reference design, as well as power supplies, cables, and documentation.

The DSP Development Kit, Stratix® II Edition delivers a complete digital signal processing (DSP) development environment for design engineers. The kit facilitates the entire design process from design conception through hardware implementation. The DSP Development Kit, Stratix II Edition includes the Stratix II DSP development board, DSP Builder development tool, Quartus® II development software, MATLAB/Simulink evaluation software, evaluation intellectual property (IP) cores, system reference designs and labs, as well as power supplies, cables, and documentation.

The DSP Development Kit, Stratix® II Professional Edition is RoHS compliant and delivers a complete digital signal processing (DSP) development environment for design engineers. The kit facilitates the entire design process from design conception through hardware implementation. The DSP Development Kit, Stratix II Professional Edition includes the Stratix II EP2S180 DSP development board, DSP Builder development tool, Quartus® II development software, MATLAB/Simulink evaluation software, evaluation intellectual property (IP) cores, system reference designs and labs, as well as power supplies, cables, and documentation.

Altera's Nios® II Development Kit, Stratix® II Edition provides a complete development environment, including everything hardware and software designers need for system-level designs. Based on the Nios II family of embedded processors and the Stratix II EP2S60 device, you'll find the kit is ideal for designing and prototyping a wide range of embedded applications.

Altera's PCI Express Development Kit, Stratix® II GX Edition delivers a complete PCI Express-based development platform. This PCI Express solution, interoperable with industry-standard PCI Express platforms, facilitates the development of custom PCI Express applications. The board also enables system-level solutions by operating as a stand-alone development platform allowing for a variety of custom applications running on the Stratix II GX FPGA. The development kit complies with the European Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directives.

Altera’s Nios® II Development Kit, Cyclone® II Edition provides everything needed for system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) development. Based on Altera’s Nios II family of embedded processors and the low-cost Cyclone II EP2C35 device, this development kit provides an ideal environment for developing and prototyping a wide range of price-sensitive embedded applications.

Altera's PCI Development Kit, Cyclone® II Edition provides a flexible, low-cost FPGA development platform in a PCI short card form factor. With a universal (3.3-V and 5-V) PCI edge connector, the PCI Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition plugs into any standard PCI or PCI-X slot. The kit includes both a hardware reference design and Windows software drivers to accelerate development. Users can perform transactions between the PCI interface and DDR2 memory within minutes of opening the box. The kit can be used as a development platform for 32-bit and 64-bit PCI, PCI-X, DDR2 SDRAM, and Altera Megafunction Partners Program (AMPPSM) partner intellectual property (IP) cores.