A Powerful NIOSⅡDev Platform : Black Gold

[Altera_Forum]

Black Gold is a FPGA development platform which designed for NIOSII developing. 

 Its main chip is ENC28J60, the common type of Cyclone II FPGAs and enough for the NIOSII. Black Gold includes the external sdram, flash, and some peripheral , also the 128X64 LCD , it’s a full system for a NIOSII project.  

• All gold-plated, professional layout 
• Core board and expand board separate, easy upgrade 
• core board can run separately without expand board , and 100 I/O breakout. 
• 64Mbit SDRAM，16Mbit configuration chip, perfect support NIOS II 
• With 128*64 LCD and button keypad 
• ENC28J60 and HR911102A for Ethernet development 
• CH376 for USB development 

  The official version of Black Gold is in now, and we will go on update the <<Deal with NISO II>> to provide more tutors for Black Gold. http://iteadstudio.com/store/images/produce/Platform/BlackGold/BG2.jpg  http://iteadstudio.com/store/images/produce/Platform/BlackGold/BG3.jpg   http://iteadstudio.com/store/images/produce/Platform/BlackGold/BG4.jpg  Download the Schematic of the core board here (http://iteadstudio.com/downloadfile/bg/schematic_core.pdf) 1. For Ethernet development: with ENC28J60 chip (datasheet)  2. For USB development: with CH376 chip(datasheet)  3. 128*64 LCD  4. DS1302 RTC chip (datasheet)  5. 512*8bit EEPROM : 24LC04 (datasheet)  6. PS/2 interface  7. RS232 serial port  8. 6 Digital tubes (common anode)  9. 5 buttons keypad  10. VGA interface  11. Buzzer  12. 4 LEDs http://iteadstudio.com/store/images/produce/Platform/BlackGold/BG5.jpg  Download the Schematic of the expand board here (http://iteadstudio.com/downloadfile/bg/schematic_expand.pdf) The Black Gold is a open source project , so we also will sell the bard PCB board in our iStore with Open PCB category. Download the PCB pdf file here (http://iteadstudio.com/downloadfile/bg/bg_pcb.pdf) 1. For Ethernet development: with ENC28J60 chip (datasheet)  2. For USB development: with CH376 chip(datasheet)  3. 128*64 LCD  4. DS1302 RTC chip (datasheet)  5. 512*8bit EEPROM : 24LC04 (datasheet)  6. PS/2 interface  7. RS232 serial port  8. 6 Digital tubes (common anode)  9. 5 buttons keypad  10. VGA interface  11. Buzzer  12. 4 LEDs   The <<Deal with NIOS II>> is basis on Black Gold ,all chapter has a demo and here we release all the demo code first , and the <<Deal with NIOS II >> will continuously updated.  Download the QUARTUS Project Files here (http://iteadstudio.com/downloadfile/bg/quartus_projectfiles.rar) Download all the demo code for <<Deal with NIOS II>> here (http://iteadstudio.com/downloadfile/bg/bg_demo.rar)  The demo code zip includes: 1_hello 2_led 3_int 4_uart 5_rtc 6_eeprom 7_lan 8_sys_clock 9_timer 10_timestamp 11_dma 12_sdram 13_flash 14_lcd 15_pwm 16_ps2_keyboard 17_usb_device 18_usb_host1 19_usb_host2 20_usb_host3 21_dig  You can get more detailed information about this dev platform here: http://iteadstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cpath=1&products_id=187

[Altera_Forum]

Thats interesting, as well as the USB Blaster Clone for $19.90 

 Do you plan to offer it with a bigger FPGA like EP2C20Q240 or EP3C16/EP3C25 ? as well as the ability to mount a bigger EPCS (or OEM) like EPCS64 ?

[Altera_Forum]

Thanks for your feedback ; ) 

 So far we have not plan to upgrade it to bigger FPGA , Black Gold is designed for beginners and ENC28J60 is enough for many primary projects , and the price will be lower if using ENC28J60 but EP2C20Q240.  Maybe we will release a new board which for master, then it will with a powerful FPGA and more peripherals.

[Altera_Forum]

Just a PCB that has only a FPGA like EP2C20 or EP3C16/25 with 16bit SDRam and a big EPCS and all other IO's connected to a pin field, and of course the Vccint (and Vcca for EP3) via LDO like the firefly did but this pcb was only available with EP1C12 if i am right. 

 i knew a couple of fpga projects out there where the people do not want to solder such "tiny" pin to pin distances but they require just the above minimum and would like to connect their own stuff to the free FPGA pins. if you have a usb blaster for this smal amount of money, why not integrating it to this minimal pcb ? just a business idea...