Nios II and Stratix II Dev.Kit

Matteo,

We are introducing Stratix II support as the devices arrive and we can design, build, test, and add support for the development boards. As you can probably guess from what is displayed in SOPC Builder we have produced a Nios development board with Stratix II 2S60ES; these will be the first to ship. I suggest that you contact your local Altera sales office or distributor to inquire about the 2S30 schedule in addition to the 2S60ES. If I were you, though, I'd snag one of the 2S60ES' because you get an FPGA twice as big.

As soon as we have boards produced & tested in-house we will add the new dev board to the list you see in SOPC Builder.

Note: the downside to using ES chips are that the timing info quartus gives is preliminary, and there may be issues (documented) that are limitations of that spin of the silicon. Altera publishes errata describing such limitations. So this may be a reason to wait for the non-ES development board.