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

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 About the University Program Staff

Members:
 Prof. Stephen Brown
 Prof. Zvonko Vranesic
 Aja Canyon
 Blair Fort
 Nick Chin
 Kevin Nam

Successful books in print

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 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

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 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

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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

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 Altera Products

FPGAs:
 Cyclone series: low cost, high performance
 Arria series: Mid range, transceivers
 Stratix series: largest, full featured, highest performance
Stratix 10
 2X core performance
 Intel’s 14nm Tri-Gate process
 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53

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

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 Altera R&D Sites

Toronto, Canada
•New Device Architectures
•CAD Algorithms St. John’s,
Herlev, Denmark
•IP Canada
•University Program

High Wycombe, UK

San Jose, US New Jersey, US

•Headquarters
Austin, US

Penang, Malaysia

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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

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 DE1-SoC
$175 USD
Cyclone V SoC FPGA

Dual-core ARM Cortex-A9

 1GB DDR 3 SDRAM, MicroSD
 USB, Triple-speed Ethernet
 ADC, Accelerometer
 LED, Pushbutton

FPGA
 85K Programmable Logic Elements
 64 MB SDRAM
 DVD-quality audio in/out, Video in/VGA out
 PS/2, IrDA
 4 debounced pushbuttons, 10 slider switches, 10 red LEDs, six 7-segment displays
 Expansion headers

Built-in USB Blaster for FPGA programming

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 DE-series Design Objective

Boards are ideal for use across the curriculum:

 Introductory Digital Logic

 Computer Organization
 Embedded Systems
 Advanced Digital Logic (System Design)
 Senior Digital Design Projects

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 Research Platform: DE5-Net (Stratix V)

SW x4 DDR3 SO-DIMM B DDR3 SO-DIMM A

USB LED x4
Blaster SATA x4
7-seg x2

RJ45

Flash
SFP+ x4
QDR II+ SRAM
PCI Express x8

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 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)

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 Altera U.P. Web Site

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 Over 1,500 Universities with Altera Labs

Canada
• 50 Labs Europe
• 500 Labs

United States
• 450 Labs
East Asia
• 500 Labs

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