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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Cyclone II FPGA Starter Kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2006
Kit is low-cost intro to FPGA design
Budget priced FPGA starter kit features the industry's lowest cost Cyclone II FPGA device family.
Priced to attract a wide range of current and new FPGA users, the new low-cost Cyclone II FPGA Starter Kit from Altera features the industry's lowest cost Cyclone II FPGA device family The low price kit - only US $150 list price - provides design engineers with a feature rich set of hardware and software resources to enable the development of FPGA-based systems that target high-volume, cost-sensitive applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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This comprehensive kit is an easy and economical introduction to FPGAs, ideal for designers new to the technology.
The Cyclone II FPGA Starter Kit gives design engineers instant access to the low-cost and fast time to market benefits of the Cyclone II family.
Built on TSMC's 90nm process node, Cyclone II FPGAs deliver the highest performance and lowest power in comparison to competing low-cost FPGAs.
The low-cost kit contains the resources a design engineer needs to create and implement a design with ease, including development software, reference designs, cables and programming hardware.
The Cyclone II FPGA Starter Kit ships with Altera's Quartus II Web Edition design software, enabling the highest levels of productivity and the fastest path to design completion.
The kit also includes the Nios II embedded processor for embedded design development as well as demos and reference designs.
"The new Cyclone II Starter Kit gives designers the tools and support needed to explore the features of the industry's lowest cost FPGAs while quickly and easily developing their designs", said Luanne Schirrmeister, Altera's Product Marketing Director for Low-Cost FPGAs.
"This kit provides design engineers with an ideal and easy-to-use platform for developing high-volume, cost-sensitive applications in markets such as automotive, consumer, communications and video processing".
The Cyclone II Starter Kit is currently available for ordering through the Altera online store and through authorised Altera distributors for US $150.
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