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ProASIC3/E Starter Kit User’s Guide and Tutorial 9
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Hardware Components
This chapter describes the hardware components of the ProASIC3/E Evaluation Board.
ProASIC3/E Evaluation Board
Figure 2-1 on page 10 illustrates a top-level view of the ProASIC3/E Evaluation Board.
The ProASIC3/E Evaluation Board consists of the following:
• Wall mount power supply connector, with switch and LED indicator
• Switches to select from among 1.5 V, 1.8 V, 2.5 V, and 3.3 V – I/O voltages on banks 4 and 5 (southern side)
• 10-pin 0.1 inch pitch programming connector compatible with Altera connections
• 40 MHz oscillator and two independent manual clock options for global reset and pulse
• Eight LEDs (driven by outputs from the device)
• Jumpers (allow disconnection of all external circuitry from the FPGA)
• Two monostable pulse generator switches ("global" and "reset")
• Four switches (provide input to the device)
• Two hex switches to provide four inputs each to the FPGA, and which are set to a user-switchable hexadecimal input
value
• Large LCD alphanumeric display to facilitate detailed message outputs from the FPGA application
For further information, refer to the following appendices:
Appendix A – “PQ208 Package Connections for A3PE600 and A3P250 Devices” on page 71 .
Appendix B – “Board Schematics” on page 81 .
Detailed Board Description and Usage
The ProASIC3 Starter kit board has various advanced features that are covered in later sections of this chapter. It will be
noted that the Advanced Prototyping Starter Kit has a socket on the board into which an end user may place any
ProASIC3 device, as all devices in both the ProASIC3 and ProASIC3E families are available in the PQ208 package.
The EVAL kit version can be identified as the one that has the FPGA soldered directly to the board.
A block diagram of the ProASIC3 Starter kit board is shown in Figure 2-1 on page 10 and will facilitate understanding
of the more detailed schematics shown in this tutorial in the appendix, “Board Schematics” on page 81 .