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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Altera DE2 Board vs Altera NEEK Kit, which would you choose and why?

They both have a cyclone device and are quite similar, NEEK Kit is more geared towards embeded applications and has a huge LCD with different type of ports. Which would you prefer out of the two and ...
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12 years ago

I haven't used the DE-2 before so I can't give an opinion but one thing I would say is if the DE-2 board relies on the Altera SDRAM IP then you might have an easier time using the NEEK. Cyclone III supports Altmemphy which is a newer memory controller that is supported in Qsys. If the DE-2 board has DDR-SDRAM and relies on Altera IP to drive it that means you'll have to use the legacy controller which isn't supported in Qsys.

Maybe you should describe what you need and we can make a recommendation, perhaps the perfect board for what you want to do is neither of these two and we can let you know that.