Altium's NanoBoards are reconfigurable development platforms that give designers high-level access to today's high-capacity, low-cost programmable devices. Working closely with Altium Designer, the NanoBoard allows rapid and interactive implementation and debugging of a digital design, directly on the target FPGA. Development and debugging capabilities include a full embedded toolchain for supported embedded processors and a range of embedded instruments, including a Logic Analyzer.
The NB1 NanoBoard, the first in the series, delivers a motherboard sporting a broad range of commonly used peripherals, with the target FPAGA being mounted on a removable daughterboard.
The NB1 NanoBoard has the following features and peripherals:
- Altium NanoTalk JTAG communications, including; a parallel PC interface, daisy chain connectors, configuration header and LEDs
- NanoTalk controller (Xilinx Spartan IIE 100K) with JTAG accessible flash configuration PROM
- Dual, 10 way User Board JTAG Headers for access to customer’s target design
- Dual 100 way FPGA daughterboard connectors
- Programmable clock 6 to 200 MHz, programmable from Altium Designer or by a Daughterboard
- 20MHz reference clock
- RS232 Serial Port – DB9
- CAN Port – DB9
- VGA Port – DB15
- PS2 Mini DIN Mouse Port
- PS2 Mini DIN PC Keyboard Port
- LCD character display, 16 x 2 chars, high contrast, LED backlight
- Magnetic Audio transducer with PWM drive capability
- 8 way DIP switch
- LED array, 8 LEDS
- Serial SPI Flash ROM, up to 2 Mb
- 256 Kb x 8 FPGA configurable SRAM (128x16,128x8+128*8)
- Four channel 8 Bit ADC, I2C
- Four channel 10 Bit DAC, I2C
- Screw Terminal Header for ADC and DAC
- ADC/DAC/I2C 14 pin expansion header
- Audio Codec, 8 bit mono with 2.5mm audio jacks
- User application reset/test button
- Dual 18 way (20 pin headers) expansion headers with power supply selection links
The NB1 NanoBoard includes 2 daughterboards, with the following devices:
- Altera Cyclone EP1C12Q240
- Xilinx Spartan II XC2S300E-6PQ208C
Other daughterboards are available, check the Altium website for more information.
This download includes the hardware design for the NB1 NanoBoard:
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