• 1SX280HU2F50 Intel^® Stratix^® 10 SoC FPGA
• One HiLo DDR4 memory card (4GB)
• One DDR4 SODIMM memory card (16GB dual rank)
• Two HPS peripheral daughter cards (OOBE and NAND)
• Two FMC loopback cards supporting transceiver, LVDS and single-ended I/Os
• Two quad small-form-factor pluggable (QSFP28) and one SFP+ port
• Two FMC+ low-pin count (LPC + 15 transceivers) connector
• One SFP+ interface
• PCIe x16 edge connector (via cable - not included)

The Nios® II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone® III Edition, is a first-class, low-cost evaluation platform for embedded developers. Software developers, especially those new to FPGA design, can install and evaluate the Nios II Embedded Design Suite (EDS)—a comprehensive software development suite for embedded applications—all at no cost. The included software tutorials and examples come with full source code showing applications such as Picture Viewer, Web Server, C-to-Hardware (C2H) acceleration, and graphics.

Hardware engineers will find Altera's low-cost, low-power, and high-performance Cyclone III FPGAs are perfectly suited as embedded processors or microcontrollers when combined with the 32-bit Nios II embedded processor.

We would like to inform you about some major new developments in the teaching materials provided for Altera's DE2 Development and Education board. We hope that you have had a chance to experiment with your DE2 board, or perhaps have gone ahead and established a teaching laboratory using this board at your school. Since we introduced the DE2 board earlier this year, DE2 teaching laboratories have been set up at more than 100 universities.

• x4 PCIe  connector on both ends
• Supports x4 PCIe data bus
• Compatible with TR4 FPGA Development Kit
• 1 meter (3.28 feet) / 2 meter (6.56 feet) /  3 meter (9.84 feet)

In recent years, rapid development has occurred in the field of molecular biology, and when coupled with the developments in genomic technologies, massive amounts of data have been discovered. The result is data needs proper and suitable storage, organization, and must be facilitated for further analysis, usage, and search. Along with recent advances in information technology, bioinformatics was born.

• Intel^® Stratix^® 10 MX FPGA H-Tile(8 GB/16 GB)
• On-board 8GB DDR4 , one DDR4 DIMM and one HiLo connector supporting DDR4 and QDR-IV
• Two QSFP28 optical interface port
• PCIe Root and End Point connector

The Intel Agilex^® 7 FPGA F-Series Transceiver-SoC development kit offers a complete design environment that includes hardware and software for developing Intel Agilex^® 7 FPGA F-Series designs. This kit is recommended for developing custom Arm processor-based SoC designs and evaluating transceiver performance.

The Intel Agilex^® 7 FPGA F-Series development kit delivers a complete design environment that includes all the hardware and software within a PCI Express (PCIe) form factor you need to start taking advantage of the performance and capabilities available in Intel Agilex^® 7 FPGA F-Series FPGAs with P-Tile and E-Tile for your design needs.

In collaboration with Altera’s University Program, Terasic Technologies has announced the release of Altera’s newest University Program FPGA development board, the DE0-Nano. Measuring just 49 mm by 75.2 mm and weighing about 40 grams, the DE0-Nano board is well-suited to a wide range of portable design projects, such as robotics applications.

• Develop and test PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 designs using the PCI-SIG®-compliant development board.
• Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of DDR4, DDR3, QDR IV, and RLDRAM III memories.
• Develop modular and scalable designs by using the FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) connectors to interface to a FMC mezzanine card provided by Altera partners and supporting protocols, such as JESD204B,  Serial RapidIO®, 10 Gbps Ethernet (10GbE), SONET, Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI),OBSAI, and many others.

• Arria 10 GX FPGA (10AX115N2F45E1SG)
• Half-length PCIe Gen3 x8 board
• Four QSFP+ connectors 
• Six independent 550MHz QDRII+ SRAMs

• Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA (10AX115N2F45E1SG)
• Low Profile PCIe Gen3 x16 (Dual PCIe Gen3 x8) Board
• Two QSFP+ Connectors
• Five Independent 550MHz QDRII+ SRAMs

Altera ((NASDAQ:ALTR), the programmable solution company, announced that it has been selected from hundreds of competitive nominations to be a finalist in the Development Kits category for this year’s EDN Innovation Awards. Instituted in 1990, the Innovation Awards honor the people, products, and technologies that have shaped the semiconductor industry over the past year.

• Intel Arria 10 GX 10AX115S2F45I1SG FPGA
• Six full-duplex transceiver channels with 2.4 mm SMA connectors
• Transceiver channels to Amphenol Xcede+ backplane connector, QSFP+,CFP2 and SFP+ optical interface

Terasic today announced that EDN has named Terasic’s Stratix V FPGA Development Kits as one of the “100 Hot Products of 2012.” The 2012 EDN Hot 100 highlights the electronics industry’s most significant products of the year based on innovation, significance, usefulness, and popularity.

Since Terasic was established in 2003, the number one priority of the board-design company has always been to revolutionize the educational landscape of digital logic design by taking laboratory and on-hands training to the next level. With the release of the Development and Education (DE) Series, ranging from the tiny Cyclone DE0-Nano development board to high-end Stratix DE5-Net development board, the DE series includes an impressive feature-set that satisfies virtually every educational requirement. Unlike prior kits, the release of the DE boards heavily emphasized real-world applications, taking laboratory classes beyond just operating LEDs and switches and into practical development with multimedia, industrial communication, and networking.

Altera (NASDAQ:ALTR), the programmable solutions company) announced the availability of its Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition this week. The kit combined a Cyclone III Starter Board with a 4.3'' LCD touch panel provides the complete embedded software development, several tutorials, and design examples with full source code.

Altera has expanded its Industrial Networking Partner Programs (INPP) to provide a networking ecosystem for developers to evaluate various industrial real-time Ethernet (and fieldbus) intellectual properties (IP) for Cyclone^® III and Cyclone IV FPGAs from established networking experts in the field. You can find the appropriate partner or partners to provide OpenCore Plus IP, reference designs, and specialized design services to meet your network communication and FPGA development needs. The Industrial Ethernet protocol standards supported include PROFINET, EtherNet/IP, EtherCAT, SERCOS III, Ethernet Powerlink, and Modbus TCP. Altera's partners, such as IXXAT and Softing, also support a number of fieldbus protocol standards.