Combining a Cyclone III starter board and a touchscreen LCD, the Nios II embedded evaluation kit Cyclone III Edition provides an 800×480-pixel color touchpanel LCD and an SD-card interface with an SD-flash card. The kit includes the Nios II EDS (embedded-design suite) for embedded-software development, several tutorials, and design examples with full source code, easing software development for the Nios II embedded processor. Features include a 3C25 FPGA with 25,000 logic elements, 32-Mbytes of DDR SDRAM, 1 Mbyte of SSRAM, a 16-Mbyte flash memory, and a 10/100-Mbps Ethernet PHY (physical) layer. The Nios II evaluation kit costs $399.

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