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The Nios Development Kit (Stratix Professional Edition) features the largest FPGA available in a Nios development kit, greater on-chip memory, increased debug features, and newly bundled debugging software. The kit’s Stratix FPGA provides resources to support the development of complex, high-performance designs, and the increased debug features and bundled software accelerate the development of systems based on the soft Nios embedded-processor core.

The development kit includes the latest release of the Nios embedded processor, V. 3.02, and the Stratix EP1S40 device. The development board features 16 MB of SDRAM, 1 MB of SRAM, 8 MB of flash memory, a 10/100 Ethernet port, two serial ports, and a Mictor connector for software trace debugging. Furthermore, it includes two expansion headers (with more than 80 available user-defined I/O pins), a power supply, and a ByteBlaster II download cable. The Nios processor also contains the enhanced on-chip instrumentation (OCI) core and software provided by First Silicon Solutions (FS2) for real-time software debugging.

The development kit includes the Quartus II design software and a complete suite of software development tools. Bundled tools include Red Hat’s GNUPro compiler and GDB/insight debugging tool, as well as evaluation versions of Accelerated Technology’s Nucleus RTOS and the code/lab Developer Suite, which offers native support for FS2’s BlackBox debug probe and support for Altera’s ByteBlaster II download cable for software debug. The Nios Development Kit (Stratix Professional Edition) costs $2495.

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