Altera DE2 Board

The Altera® DE2 Development and Education board was designed by professors, for professors. It is an ideal vehicle for learning about digital logic, computer organization, and FPGAs. Featuring an Altera Cyclone® II 2C35 FPGA, the DE2 board is designed for university and college laboratory use. It is suitable for a wide range of exercises in courses on digital logic and computer organization, from simple tasks that illustrate fundamental concepts to advanced designs.

Specification

• Altera Cyclone II 2C35 FPGA with 35000 LEs
• Altera Serial Configuration deivices (EPCS16) for Cyclone II 2C35
• USB Blaster built in on board for programming and user API controlling
• JTAG Mode and AS Mode are supported
• 8Mbyte (1M x 4 x 16) SDRAM
• 512K byte(256K X16) SRAM
• 4Mbyte Flash Memory (upgradeable to 4Mbyte)
• SD Card Socket
• 4 Push-button switches
• 18 DPDT switches
• 9 Green User LEDs
• 18 Red User LEDs
• 16 x 2 LCD Module
• 50MHz Oscillator and 27MHz Oscillator for external clock sources
• 24-bit CD-Quality Audio CODEC with line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks
• VGA DAC (10-bit high-speed triple DACs) with VGA out connector
• TV Decoder (NTSC/PAL) and TV in connector
• 10/100 Ethernet Controller with socket.
• USB Host/Slave Controller with USB type A and type B connectors.
• RS-232 Transceiver and 9-pin connector
• PS/2 mouse/keyboard connector
• IrDA transceiver
• Two 40-pin Expansion Headers with diode protection
• DE2 Lab CD-ROM which contains many examples with source code to exercise the boards, including: SDRAM and Flash Controller, CD-Quality Music Player, VGA and TV Labs, SD Card reader, RS-232/PS-2 Communication Labs, NIOSII, and Control Panel API
• Size：153*203 mm

Layout

Resources

Documents

Title	Version	Size (KB)	Date Added	Download
Getting Started User Manual	1.4	3289	2008-09-16	pdf
DE2 Web Server Application Note	-	1043	2008-09-16	pdf
DE2 Board Introduction	-	313	2008-09-16	pdf
Product Spec. (English)	-	932	2008-09-16	pdf
DE2 Pin Table	-	22	2008-09-16	pdf

CD-ROM

Title	Version	Size (KB)	Date Added	Download
DE2 CD-ROM	-	-	-	zip

Kit Contents

• Altera DE2 Board
• Altera DE2 CD - Version 1.6
• Altera Quartus II DVD with Nios II - Version 7.2
  (We provide Quartus II Web Edition software. To learn more about the details please visit Quartus II Software—Subscription Edition and Web Edition Comparison )
• 1 Adapter DC 9V/1.3A (US wall plug)
• 1 USB Cable
• 6 Silicon Footstands
• 2 Cables (black- and red-colored)
• 2 PIN Headers, 1P1N