Not very hapy with theCyclone III FPGA Starter Kit

I am looking at the CIII starter kit to be used in a Nios based controller prototype. I plan to plug my custom board onto the HSMC. Since the literature for this kit mentions the Nios, I assume I can use a Nios in my prototype without restriction (no time limit, full pof generation, no attached cable requirements). Is this true? Are you saying that Altera does not provide any Nios reference designs for a board that is specifically designed to be a Nios platform?