CoreEP4CE10, ALTERA Core Board

Overview

CoreEP4CE10 is an FPGA core board that features an EP4CE10F17C8N device onboard, supports further expansion.

• onboard Serial Configuration Device EPCS16SI8N
• integrated FPGA basic circuit, such as clock circuit
• onboard nCONFIG button, RESET button, 4 x LEDs
• all the I/O ports are accessible on the pin headers
• onboard JTAG debugging/programming interface
• 2.00mm header pitch design, suitable for being plugged-in your application system

What's On Board

1. EP4CE10F17C8N:the ALTERA Cyclone IV FPGA device which features:
   • Operating Frequency: 50MHz
   • Operating Voltage: 1.15V～3.465V
   • Package: BGA256
   • I/Os: 164
   • LEs: 10K
   • RAM: 414kb
   • PLLs: 2
   • Debugging/Programming: supports JTAG
2. AMS1117-3.3 (on bottom side), 3.3V voltage regulator
3. AMS1117-2.5 (on bottom side), 2.5V voltage regulator
4. AMS1117-1.2 (on bottom side), 1.2V voltage regulator
5. EPCS16, onboard serial FLASH memory, for storing code
6. Power indicator
7. LEDs
8. Reset button
9. nCONFIG button: for re-configuring the FPGA chip, the equivalent of power reseting
10. 50M active crystal
11. JTAG interface: for debugging/programming
12. FPGA pins expander, VCC, GND and all the I/O ports are accessible on expansion connectors for further expansion

Photos

Note:
CoreEP4CE10 provides JTAG debugging interface, yet does NOT integrate any debugging function, a debugger is required.
Mother board and programmer/debugger in the photos are NOT included in the price.

JTAG Interface

The figure below shows the header pinout of JTAG

Figure 1. JTAG Header Pinout

Development Resources

• Related software (Quaters II, NIOS II etc.)
• Demo code (Verilog, VHDL, NIOS II C)
• Schematic (PDF)
• FPGA development documentations