Quick USB Starter Kit

QuickUSB with an Altera Cyclone II FPGA

If you want the QuickUSB advantage integrated with an amazing FPGA, then the QuickUSB Starter Kit is what you need - hi-speed USB combined with FPGA power.

The QuickUSB Starter Kit includes one

• QuickUSB Hi-speed USB module
• QuickUSB Cyclone II Evaluation Board
• Power Supply Unit

Next, there's an Altera EP2C20F256C7 Cyclone II FPGA on board. The FPGA connects to nearly every pin of the QuickUSB module and extra I/O pins go to 0.1" headers so you can wire in your circuitry. Since the FPGA is an Altera Cyclone II, you can use the free Quartus II Web Edition to design your digital circuitry.

You can configure the FPGA using QuickUSB. And of course, there's a JTAG connector so you can use Quartus' integrated SignalTap II embedded timing analyzer to debug your design or the In-System Memory Content Editor to view or edit data inside the FPGA in real time.

The Starter Kit gets its power from the USB bus, but if you need more power, there's a power connector and a 5V/2A power supply is included in the kit. In addition, the I/O connectors for the QuickUSB module supplies unregulated 5V and the I/O connectors for the FPGA supply regulated 3.3V.

The Altera FPGA gets its clock from either the QuickUSB module (48MHz) or from a clock oscillator socket that's already on board. The Cyclone II has four (4) PLLs inside and you can use them to generate nearly any clock you'd like without any external components.