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16 years ago

help me please -cyclone device

Hi, can you tell wath do an altera FPGA device need to be operable. if i buy an cyclone fpga what other thins i need to buy to design my hardware?
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16 years ago

Starting with a Dev Kit is a good suggestion. On the other hand, you can start a hardware design from the scratch as you would do e.g. with a microprocessor. The device handbook contains all necessary information, but some design experience is required to understand it completely, I think.

To answer the question strictly, you need at least a dual (VCCINT/VCCIO) power supply, a clock source, nonvolatile configuration memory (not absolutely necessary during test), a JTAG connector and the user IO to be interfaced with the FPGA.

Also an Altera or compatible third party USB Blaster or Byte Blaster.