MAX II Development Kit

from Altera Corporation

The MAX^® II Development Kit, from the market's leading supplier of CPLDs, enables you to evaluate the MAX II CPLD feature set or begin prototyping your own design. It includes reference designs (LCD controller, PCI, USB, and slot machine), demo designs, software, cables, and all the accessories needed to ensure fast and easy use of the MAX II CPLD.

• Ordering Information
• Development Kit Contents
• Documentation
• Related Links

Ordering Information

Table 1. MAX II Development Kit Ordering Code and Pricing Information
Ordering Code	Price	Ordering Information
DK-MAXII-1270N	$150	Buy online via Altera's eStore or contact your local Altera® distributor to place your order.

Development Kit Contents

The MAX II Development Kit includes the following:

• RoHS-compliant MAX II development board, PCI edge form factor
  • MAX II CPLD, EPM1270F256C5N
  • SRAM (128K x 8 bit)
  • 4-channel analog-to-digital converter (8-bit resolution)
  • USB media access control (MAC) with physical layer (PHY)
  • 16x2 character LCD module
  • Temperature gauge with serial peripheral interface (SPI)
  • Onboard power meter
  • Active I/O sense circuitry
  • Four user-defined, push-button switches
  • Four user-defined LEDs
• Connectors
  • PCI edge form factor (3.3-V and 5.0-V tolerant)
  • JTAG connectors
  • USB connector (Type B)
  • One 3.3-V tolerant expansion/prototype header (41 available user I/O pins)
• Cables and accessories
  • USB Blaster^TM download programming cable
  • Type A-B USB cable (3 feet)
• Reference designs and demos for MAX II CPLDs (partial list):
  • USB reference design (with software drivers)
  • PCI 32-bit target reference design (with software drivers)
  • LCD controller reference design
  • Low power demo
  • Real-time in-system programmability (ISP) demo
• Quartus^® II Web Edition design software
• Complete documentation
  • Getting Started Guide, reference manual, bill of materials, schematic, and board assembly files

Figure 1. MAX II Development Board

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Documentation

Related Links

• MAX II design examples (some include Verilog source code and testbench, Quartus II project files, and ModelSim^® files)
• MAX IIZ zero-power devices, the latest generation of CPLDs from Altera
• Other MAX II development kits