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Altera Cyclone IV FPGA DE0-Nano ​

About the board ​

The DE0-Nano board introduces a compact-sized FPGA development platform suited for to a wide range of portable design projects, such as robots and mobile projects.

The DE0-Nano is ideal for use with embedded soft processors—it features a powerful Altera Cyclone IV FPGA (with 22,320 logic elements), 32 MB of SDRAM, 2 Kb EEPROM, and a 64 Mb serial configuration memory device. For connecting to real-world sensors the DE0-Nano includes a National Semiconductor 8-channel 12-bit A/D converter, and it also features an Analog Devices 13-bit, 3-axis accelerometer device.

The DE0-Nano board includes a built-in USB Blaster for FPGA programming, and the board can be powered either from this USB port or by an external power source. The board includes expansion headers that can be used to attach various Terasic daughter cards or other devices, such as motors and actuators. Inputs and outputs include 2 pushbuttons, 8 user LEDs and a set of 4 dip-switches.

Features ​

The key features of the board are listed below:

  • Altera Cyclone® IV EP4CE22F17C6N FPGA
  • 153 maximum FPGA I/O pins

Configuration status and set-up elements ​

  • On-board USB-Blaster circuit for programming
  • Spansion EPCS64

Expansion header ​

  • Two 40-pin Headers (GPIOs) provide 72 I/O pins, 5V power pins, two 3.3V power pins and four ground pins

Memory devices ​

  • 32MB SDRAM
  • 2Kb I2C EEPROM

General user input/output ​

  • 8 green LEDs o 2 debounced pushbuttons
  • 4-position DIP switch

G-Sensor ​

  • ADI ADXL345, 3-axis accelerometer with high resolution (13-bit) A/D Converter
  • NS ADC128S022, 8-Channel, 12-bit A/D Converter
  • 50 Ksps to 200 Ksps

Clock system ​

  • On-board 50MHz clock oscillator

Power Supply ​

  • USB Type mini-AB port (5V)
  • DC 5V pin for each GPIO header (2 DC 5V pins)
  • 2-pin external power header (3.6-5.7V)

About the kit ​

The kit comes with the following contents:

  1. DE0-Nano board
  2. USB Cable
Altera Cyclone IV FPGA DE0-Nano

Layout ​

Altera Cyclone IV FPGA DE0-Nano
Altera Cyclone IV FPGA DE0-Nano

GPIO-0 Pin Configuration ​

Altera Cyclone IV FPGA DE0-Nano
Altera Cyclone IV FPGA DE0-Nano

GPIO-0 Pin Configuration ​

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GPIO-1 Pin Configuration ​

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