Sales Support & Product Suggestions Request

Hi FvM,

Thank you for your help.

So sounds like a MAX II series chip would be ideal.

I tried to see what hardware would be required to program these and the only thing available from the Altera site:

http://www.altera.com/buy/buy-index.html

seems to be this:

http://www.buyaltera.com/scripts/partsearch.dll/multisearch?site=altera&lang=en;part=544-2380-nd

What does

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...begin prototyping a design prior to receiving custom hardware

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mean?

Is this all the hardware I need to program/download a design to a/any MAX II chip?

Is there something better?

Please forgive my lack of knowledge.

Again Thank you very much for your support.