Terasic tNano Quick Start Manual

Quick GuideQuick Start Guide

tNano

Development and Education Kit

2 Push-buttons

8 Green LEDs

Altera USB-Blaster

Controller Chipset

Cyclone III

EP3C25F324 FPGA

2Kb EEPROM

USB-Blaster

Port

Altera EPCS4

Configuration Device

80-pin Edge

Connector

Quick Guntroduction

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Thank you for choosing Terasic tNano kit as your FPGA development platform. This guide
offers the quickest way to install the prerequisite software and begin using the tNano
board. Many useful resources are available on the website of Terasic.

Software download address: http://www.altera.com/products/software/sfw-index.jsp.

To begin, install the Quartus II software, which you can download from Altera’s website.
The tNano board requires Quartus II software version 10.0 or later in order to properly
compile and generate FPGA programming files. Additionally, you may need to install the
Nios II Embedded Design Suite. Please download the web edition version software of
Quartus and Nios II EDS.

Quick GuideInstalling the Altera’s software

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Quartus II FPGA design software

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Nios II EDS

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Obtain a license file from Altera if you choose the subscription edition while installing
the Quartus II software

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Install the USB-Blaster driver software as explained in the document install_usb.pdf.
which can be found in the user_manual folder in the tNano System CD

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Perform the following steps to complete the installation:

Development and Education Kit