Altera University Program Professor Workshop Kevin Nam About
Altera University Program Professor Workshop Kevin Nam
About the Presenter (me) Graduated from University of Toronto ECE in 2014 Currently MEng student at the University of Toronto Member of the Altera University Program since 2012 - Course materials and exercises - Altera Monitor Program - Web infrastructure 2
About the University Program Staff Members: - Prof. Stephen Brown - Prof. Zvonko Vranesic - Aja Canyon - Blair Fort - Nick Chin - Kevin Nam Successful books in print 3
Why Teach Students about FPGAs? Field-Programmable Gate Arrays are programmable hardware chips - Can be used to implement any digital hardware circuit Digital hardware is found is almost all modern products - 4 Consumer produces, like audio and video players Telephone and television equipment Cars, airplanes, trains Medical equipment, and industrial control
Why Teach Students about FPGAs? Field-Programmable Gate Arrays are programmable hardware chips - Can be used to implement any digital hardware circuit Digital hardware is found is almost all modern products - Consumer produces, like audio and video players Telephone and television equipment Cars, airplanes, trains Medical equipment, and industrial control FPGAs are … everywhere 5
About Altera Corporation
Altera Highlights Founded in 1983 High-growth semiconductor company Products include - FPGAs structured ASICs embedded soft processors design software IP development kits 3, 100 employees 7
Altera Products FPGAs: - Cyclone series: low cost, high performance - Arria series: Mid range, transceivers - Stratix series: largest, full featured, highest performance Stratix 10 - 2 X core performance - Intel’s 14 nm Tri-Gate process - 64 -bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A 53 Design Support: - Quartus II: easy to use, complete CAD flow - Qsys System Integration tool Development environment for embedded systems Nios II: embedded processor, ARM processor - Embedded Design Suite: Nios II and ARM 8
Altera R&D Sites Toronto, Canada • New Device Architectures • CAD Algorithms • IP • University Program St. John’s, Canada Herlev, Denmark High Wycombe, UK New Jersey, US San Jose, US • Headquarters Austin, US Penang, Malaysia 9
Altera University Program Overview
Altera’s University Program Advantage Ready-to-teach course material for universities - Tutorials (written for students, not experienced engineers!) - Lab exercises Written by experienced Professors Digital Logic, Computer Organization, Embedded Systems - Design examples I. P. cores for all of the peripherals on our teaching boards Prebuilt Nios II and ARM computer systems for use in courses - Software: Quartus II, Nios II and ARM development tools Easy to use, powerful tools All software licenses are free to universities - Distributed through the Web (http: //university. altera. com/) Best-in-class lab boards for teaching 11
DE 1 -So. C $175 USD Cyclone V So. C FPGA Dual-core ARM Cortex-A 9 - 1 GB DDR 3 SDRAM, Micro. SD USB, Triple-speed Ethernet ADC, Accelerometer LED, Pushbutton FPGA - 85 K Programmable Logic Elements 64 MB SDRAM DVD-quality audio in/out, Video in/VGA out PS/2, Ir. DA 4 debounced pushbuttons, 10 slider switches, 10 red LEDs, six 7 -segment displays Expansion headers Built-in USB Blaster for FPGA programming 12
DE-series Design Objective Boards are ideal for use across the curriculum: - 13 Introductory Digital Logic Computer Organization Embedded Systems Advanced Digital Logic (System Design) Senior Digital Design Projects
Research Platform: DE 5 -Net (Stratix V) USB Blaster SW x 4 LED x 4 7 -seg x 2 DDR 3 SO-DIMM B SATA x 4 DDR 3 SO-DIMM A RJ 45 Flash SFP+ x 4 PCI Express x 8 14 QDR II+ SRAM
Getting Started with the U. P. Enroll as a member Professor at - http: //university. altera. com Receive free licenses for Quartus II CAD tools, Nios II processor, and other I. P. core designs Request a free sample DE-series board After evaluating the board: - Purchase additional boards (at Altera U. P. prices) from www. terasic. com or - Request a larger donation (We also offer grants of FPGA chips for teaching & research projects) 15
Altera U. P. Web Site 16
Over 1, 500 Universities with Altera Labs Canada • 50 Labs Europe • 500 Labs United States • 450 Labs East Asia • 500 Labs 17
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