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Article: FPGA evaluation boards come with design software.
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- November 12, 2009
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by Paul Rako
Altium's new NanoBoard 3000 embedded-system development platform includes a board with an FPGA chip, an IR (infrared) remote control, and a 12-month license for Altium Designer schematic and FPGA software. Boards are available for Altera (www.altera.com ) Cyclone III, Lattice (www.latticesemi.com ) ECP2, and Xilinx (www.xilinx.com ) Spartan-3AN FPGAs. The boards come with royalty-free IP (intellectual property) for functions such as a USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface, a TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) stack, a touchscreen, a PS2 controller, and SVGA (super-video-graphics-array) capability. The units include three USB ...