The Altera DE2-70 development and education board, equipped with almost 70,000 LEs of Altera Cyclone® II 2C70, not only adopts the advantages of the Altera DE2 board such as the multimedia, storage, and networking interfaces but also has larger memory components than ever before.
The board offers a rich set of features that make it suitable to be used in a laboratory environment for university and college courses, for a variety of design projects, as well as for the development of sophisticated digital systems.
Altera provides a suite of supporting materials for the DE2-70 board, including tutorials, "ready-to-teach" laboratory exercises, and illustrative demonstrations.
Features
The DE2-70 board has many features that allow the user to implement a wide range of designed circuits, from simple circuits to various multimedia projects.
- USB Blaster (on board) for programming and user API control;
- both JTAG and Active Serial (AS) programming modes are supported
- 2-Mbyte SSRAM
- Two 32-Mbyte SDRAM
- 8-Mbyte Flash memory
- SD Card socket
- 4 pushbutton switches
- 18 toggle switches
- 18 red user LEDs
- 9 green user LEDs
- 50-Mhz oscillator and 28.63-Mhz oscillator for clock sources
- 24-bit CD-quality audio CODEC with line-in, line-out, and microphone-in jacks
- VGA DAC (10-bit high-speed triple DACs) with VGA-out connector
- 2 TV Decoder (NTSC/PAL) and TV-in connector
- 10/100 Ethernet Controller with a connector
- USB Host/Slave Controller with USB type A and type B connectors
- RS-232 transceiver and 9-pin connector
- PS/2 mouse/keyboard connector
- IrDA transceiver
- 1 SMA connector
- Two 40-pin Expansion Headers with diode protection
DE2-70 Board Layout and Components

DE2-70 Demonstrations
- DE2-70 Control Panel
- DE2-70 Video Utility
- TV Box Demonstration
- TV Box PIP Demonstration
- USB Paintbrush Demonstration
- USB Device Demonstration
- Karaoke Machine Demonstration
- Ethemet Packet Sending/Receiving Demonstration
- SD Card Music Player
- Music Synthesizer Demonstration
- Audio Record and Play
DE2-70 Control Panel

Download
DE2-70 Kit Iincludes The Following Items
- Altera DE2-70 Board
- Altera Quartus II DVD with Nios II - Version 7.2
- 1 USB Cable
- 1 Adapter DC 12V/2A
- 6 Silicon Footstands
- 2 Cables (black- and red-colored)
- 2 PIN Headers, 1P1N

