The DE0-Nano-SoC Development Kit presents a robust hardware design platform built around the Altera System-on-Chip (SoC) FPGA, which combines the latest dual-core Cortex-A9 embedded cores with industry-leading programmable logic for ultimate design flexibility. Users can now leverage the power of tremendous re-configurability paired with a high-performance, low-power processor system. Altera’s SoC integrates an ARM-based hard processor system (HPS) consisting of processor, peripherals and memory interfaces tied seamlessly with the FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. The DE0-Nano-SoC development board is equipped with high-speed DDR3 memory, analog to digital capabilities, Ethernet networking, and much more that promise many exciting applications.

The DE0-Nano-SoC Development Kit contains all the tools needed to use the board in conjunction with a computer that runs the Microsoft Windows XP or later.

What's different between the DE0-Nano-SoC kit and the Atlas-SoC kit?

The hardware is the same for the DE0-Nano-SoC kit and the Atlas-SoC kit. The only difference is the getting-started process for the two kits. Users can freely use the DE0-Nano-SoC kit resources on the Atlas-SoC kit and vice versa.

For more details on the Atlas-SoC kit, please visit: http://www.rocketboards.org/atlas-soc (The site is still under construction.)

● Specification

The DE0-Nano-SoC board has many features that allow users to implement a wide range of designed circuits, from simple circuits to various multimedia projects.

The following hardware is provided on the board:

FPGA Device

• Altera Cyclone? V SE 5CSEMA4U23C6N device
• Serial configuration device – EPCS128
• USB-Blaster II onboard for programming; JTAG Mode
• 2 push-buttons
• 4 slide switches
• 8 green user LEDs
• Three 50MHz clock sources from the clock generator
• Two 40-pin expansion header
• One Arduino expansion header (Uno R3 compatibility), can connection with Arduino shields.
• One 10-pin Analog input expansion header. (shared with Arduino Analog input)
• A/D converter, 4-pin SPI interface with FPGA

HPS (Hard Processor System)

• 925MHz Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor
• 1GB DDR3 SDRAM (32-bit data bus)
• 1 Gigabit Ethernet PHY with RJ45 connector
• USB OTG Port, USB Micro-AB connector
• Micro SD card socket
• Accelerometer (I2C interface + interrupt)
• UART to USB, USB Mini-B connector
• Warm reset button and cold reset button
• One user button and one user LED
• LTC 2x7 expansion header

Block Diagram of the DE0-Nano-SOC Board

Connectivity

• Connect LT24

• Connect Arduino