Altera® Cyclone® III
Part Number: 12-401-DB40
Device: EP3C40F780C8N
The EP3C40F780C8N device on the daughter board is a member of the 1.2V Cyclone III family of FPGAs. The Cyclone III provides a low-cost, low-power and high-density solution for applications such as those targeted to the consumer electronics industry.
The entire Cyclone III family includes eight devices offering densities ranging from 5,136 to 119,088 Logic Elements. The EP3C40F780C8N offers 39,600 Logic Elements. Table 1 provides an information summary for this device.
EP3C40F780C8N features:
| Package | 780-Ball FineLine Ball Grid Array (FBGA780) – Option 2 (Wire Bond) |
| Speed Grade | 8 |
| Temperature Grade | Commercial |
| Pin Count | 780 |
| Maximum User I/O Pins | 535 |
| Max. Differential I/O Pairs | 219 |
| Altera Logic Elements | 39,600 |
| Embedded (Block) RAM | 1,161,216 bits (126 M9K RAM blocks: 8192 memory bits + 1024 parity bits per block) |
| Embedded Multipliers (18x18) | 126 (each configurable as 9x9 multipliers) |
| Clock Managers (PLLs) | 0 |
| Global Clock Resources | 20 |
| Configuration Memory Required | 10,500,000 bits |
| On-Chip Termination Support | Yes |
Additional daughter board features:
- On-board memories available for use by FPGA design:
- 256K x 32-bit common-bus SRAM (1MByte)
- 16M x 32-bit common-bus SDRAM (64MByte)
- 16M x 16-bit common-bus Flash memory (32MByte)
- Dual 256K x 16-bit independent SRAM (512KByte each)
- 1-Wire® memory device used to store board ID and related information
- Three 100-way connectors for attachment to NB2DSK01 motherboard. These connectors provide:
- Interface to resources on the NB2DSK01 motherboard and plugged-in peripheral boards
- SPI bus interface
- I2C bus interface
- 1-Wire bus interface
- JTAG, power and additional control lines from the motherboard.
More technical information on the Altera Cyclone III daughter board >
Software support
Use of the Cyclone III daughter board requires the winter 09 release of Altium Designer be installed on your PC.
To implement a design on this FPGA device you will also require the relevant vendor tools. For more information visit Vendor Tools page.
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