Get In Touch With Your Inner NEEK With The Terasic MAX 10

Mouser Electronics is now shipping the MAX 10 Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit (NEEK) from Terasic Technologies. This evaluation kit supports test and development of the Altera MAX 10 non-volatile field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), offering a comprehensive design environment with everything embedded developers need to create a processing-based system. The kit allows developers to rapidly customize their processor and IP to suit their specific needs, rather than constraining software around the fixed feature set of the processor.

The Terasic MAX 10 NEEK, available from Mouser Electronics, provide developers with an integrated platform to develop a wide range of applications on the Altera MAX 10 FPGAs. The MAX 10 NEEK board includes an Altera MAX10 10M50DAF484C6G FPGA, which features integrated dual analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), 1,638 Kbits of embedded memory, and 5,888 Kbits of flash memory, and contains 50,000 programmable logic elements (LE). The embedded 32-bit Nios II RISC processor supports a variety of operating systems and includes free development tools.

The MAX 10 NEEK board offers 256 MBytes of DDR3 SDRAM, 512 MBytes of quad-SPI Flash, and a Micro SD socket for additional storage. The board includes a five-point 800×480 LCD five-point capacitive touch panel and digital image module to allow for the development of multimedia applications. Designers can use the onboard USB-Blaster II or optional JTAG (via a 10-pin header) for easy test and debugging. The board features Gigabit Ethernet, PS/2 connection, and a 2×6 Terasic Mini Digital (TMD) expansion header. The board supports 24-bit audio, HDMI RX (including support for 3D video), and an 8-megapixel MIPI CS-2 color camera input.

The evaluation board comes with design files (including BOM, schematics, and layout) and the Altera Nios II integrated design environment (IDE) and supports the Altera Quartus® II FPGA design software.