Altera Nios II User manual

Microphone
Audio in
Audio out
Video in
VGA output
RS232 serial port
PS/2 port
Ethernet port
SD card
LCD touch panel
Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition
Quick start guide
Power input
USB cable
input
Press RECONFIGURE to return to Application Selector
Power on
push button
e Nios® II Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition
is a rst-class, low-cost evaluation platform for
embedded developers. e kit includes the
Nios II EDS, a complete design suite for all your
embedded development needs. e soware
tutorials and examples in this kit come with full
source code showing applications such as a
picture viewer, a web server, C-to-hardware
(C2H) acceleration and graphics.
Cyclone®III FPGA base board
+ touch-panel LCD daughter card

Perform power-on test
Install the design software
e Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III
Edition User Guide will guide you through the
steps to:
As you unpack the box you will notice that there is
no USB Blaster. e USB circuitry is on the board.
1. Plug the supplied 12-V DC power supply into an
AC power outlet (100 V-240 V), and then connect
this power supply to the development board.
2. Connect the development board to your com-
puter using the supplied USB cable.
3. Turn on the development board power by
pressing the blue power switch.
4. Out of the box you should observe that the
application selector appears on the LCD screen.
Launch demo applications
You can launch the demo applications included in
the Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III
Edition using the touch panel.
1. e rst time the kit is powered on, it will default
to the application selector.
2. Scroll through the available applications using
the touch-screen LCD display. Touch to select the
application and press “LOAD” to launch it.
3. When you are done viewing the application press
“RECONFIGURE” push button to return to the
application selector.
For more details, refer to the Nios II Embedded
Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition User Guide.
Evaluate the software
development tools
e Nios II EDS is a complete design suite for all
your embedded development needs.
Additionally, the Nios II EDS includes a developer’s
license for third-party soware.
Directory structure
Installed directory contents
Directory name Description of contents
board_design_files Schematic, assembly, bill of materials.
documents Kit documentation, user guides, tutorials
examples Source code for example applications
demos Ready-to-run demonstration applications
factory_recovery Files required to restore default
factory image
Nios II EDS
Component Description
Nios II Integrated Develop-
ment Environment (IDE)
Includes text editor, compiler,
debugger and flash programmer
Micrium’s MicroC-OS II RTOS Evaluation version for real-time
operating system
NicheStack TCP/IP Network
Stack - Nios II Edition
Evaluation version of
commercial grade network stack
El Camino SD Card Controller Evaluation version of SD Card
Controller
Nios II C2H compiler Evaluation version of ANSI C-to
-Hardware acceleration compiler
What’s in the box?
• CycloneIIIStarterBoard
– Cyclone III EP3C25F324 FPGA, 25,000 logic
elements (LEs)
– EmbeddedUSB-Blaster™circuitryforFPGA
configuration
– 32 Mbytes DDR SDRAM
– 1 Mbyte synchronous SRAM
– 16 Mbytes Intel P30/P33 Flash
• LCDdaughtercard
– 800 X 480 touch-screen LCD display
– 24-bit CD-quality audio coder/decoder
(CODEC) with line-in, line-out, and mic-in jacks
– Ethernet 10/100 Mbps
– VGA output
– Composite video input
– PS2 connector
– RS-232 connector
• Cablesandaccessories
– SDCardandUSBtoSDCardadaptor
– TypeA-BUSBcable
– One serial cable (RS-232), PS/2 mouse/
keyboard connectors
– 12-V power supply, international power cords
– Ethernet (RJ-45) cable (7 ft.), Ethernet
crossover adapter
• Nios®II evaluation kit CD-ROM (with software
tutorials and examples)
• AlteraCompleteDesignSuiteDVDwiththeNiosII
Embedded Design Suite (EDS) and Quartus®II
design software
Create my first software
application
Take the My First Nios II Soware Tutorial located
in the <install_directory>\documents\tutorials\
soware_tutorials directory
Learning resources
Additional learning resources Learning goal
My First FPGA—hardware tutorial
(located in the <install_directory>\
documents\hardware_tutorials directory)
Create an FPGA
hardware design
Training*
•DevelopingSoftwareforNiosIIProcessor
•UsingtheNiosIISoftware
Learn how to use
the software
Literature*
•NiosIISoftwareDeveloper’sHandbook
•NiosIIProcessorHandbook
•Softwareandhardwaretutorialsand
application notes
Design Examples*
•Sourcecodeprovidedfordesignexamples
Develop applica-
tions using Nios II
processors
*Access resources at www.altera.com/embedded
1. Install the following soware from the accompany-
ing DVD or from the Altera® web page:
www.altera.com/download
Install ALL of the following:
• QuartusIIFPGAdesignsoware
• NiosIIEDS
• AlteraMegaCore®IPLibrary
2. Obtain a license le
3. Install USB Blaster driver soware
4. Install tutorials and examples from the Nios II
evaluationkitCDROM
By default these les will be installed to the
“<install_directory>”:
/altera/<version #>/kits/cycloneIII_3c25_niosII

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Download more designs
New designs for the Nios II Embedded Evaluation
Kit, Cyclone III Edition are available and can be
downloaded from the Nios II Embedded Evalua-
tion Kit, Cyclone III Edition web page:
www.altera.com/nios2eval.
Refer to the Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit,
Cyclone III Edition User Guide to learn how to
download new designs to your kit.
Learn more about the Nios II
Embedded Evaluation Kit,
Cyclone III Edition
Learn more in the Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit,
Cyclone III Edition User Guide, including how to:
• Developapplicationsfortheevaluationkit
• Addyourowndesignstotheevaluationkit
• Addyourownpicturestothepictureviewerdemo
• Updateyourevaluationkitwithnewapplications
available online
• Recoverthefactoryimage
Join the Nios II Embedded
Evaluation Kit Community
Obtain design examples, source code, and IP for
the Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit. You can also
post your own ready-to-run SD-Card demos at
this site.
Go to the NiosWiki: nioswiki.jot.com/WikiHome/
Nios2EmbeddedEvaluationKit
Related links
• NiosIIEmbeddedEvaluationKit,CycloneIII
Edition web page
www.altera.com/nios2eval
• AlteraNiosIIembeddedprocessorwebpage
www.altera.com/embedded
• NiosForum
www.niosforum.com
• NiosWiki
nioswiki.jot.com/WikiHome/
Nios2EmbeddedEvaluationKit