Not very hapy with theCyclone III FPGA Starter Kit

http://altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyc3-starter.html

there you can read someting about Nios, ...

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Cyclone III and Nios II 32-bit soft IP processor

Cyclone III FPGAs are perfectly suited as embedded processors or microcontrollers when combined with Altera's 32-bit Nios® II embedded processor intellectual property (IP) cores. You can add many other functions to the Cyclone III FPGA with additional IP cores available from Altera and Altera's partners.

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before i bought the board i tought there will be some nios reference desings included,...