Altera APEX DSP Development Kit, User Manual

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About this Kit
The Altera ® APEX™ DSP development kit provides everything you need
to develop complete system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions.
This document describes how to install the software provided with the kit
and how to connect the cables to the APEX DSP development board.
Figure 1 shows the kit contents.
Figure 1. APEX DSP Development Kit
The DSP Builder CD-ROM and the Quartus
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II Limited Edition CD-ROM (only provided with the starter version of the kit)
and additional power cables are not shown.
The APEX DSP development kit includes:
■ APEX DSP Development Board —The APEX DSP development board is
a prototyping platform that provides wireless system designers with
a solution for signal processing design. The professional board in the
professional version of the kit has an APEX EP20K1500E device; the
starter board in the starter version of the kit has an APEX EP20K200E
device.