Altium's Daughter Boards

Daughter boards for Desktop NanoBoard

Altium's NanoBoard architecture is unique in that target programmable devices are housed on plug-in daughterboards, enabling you to easily change the target project architecture, providing a truly FPGA vendor-independent development board.

With the release of the Desktop NanoBoard, the swappable daughter boards now support a much larger number of IO connections from the target FPGA to the connected peripherals. Backwards compatibility has been included so that all of the daughter boards available can be readily used with either the Desktop NanoBoard or the NanoBoard-NB1. Note that the NanoBoard-NB1 daughter boards only address one of the three peripheral boards on the Desktop NanoBoard.

Xilinx® Spartan™-3
Device: XC3S1500-4FGG676C

The XC3S1500-4FGG676C device on the daughter board is a member of the 1.2V Spartan-3 family of FPGAs. The Spartan-3 provides a low-cost, high-density solution for applications such as those targeted to the consumer electronics industry. The entire Spartan-3 family includes eight devices offering densities ranging from 50,000 to 5,000,000 gates. The XC3S1500-4FGG676C offers 1.5 million gates.

Altera® Cyclone™ II
Device: EP2C35F672C8

The EP2C35F672C8 device on the daughter board is a member of the 1.2V Cyclone II family of FPGAs. The Cyclone II provides a low-cost, high-density solution for applications such as those targeted to the consumer electronics industry. The entire Cyclone II family includes seven devices offering densities ranging from 4,608 to 68.416 Logic Elements. The EP2C35F672C8 offers 33,216 Logic Elements.

LatticeECP™
Device: LFECP33E-3FN672C

The LFECP33E-3FN672C device on the daughter board is a member of the 1.2V ECP family of FPGAs. The ECP provides a low-cost, high-density solution for applications such as those targeted to the consumer electronics industry. The entire ECP family includes five devices offering densities ranging from 6,100 to 32,800 LUTs. The LFECP33E-3FN672C offers 32,800 LUTs

Xilinx® Virtex®-4
Device: XC4VLX25-10FF668C

The XC4VLX25-10FF668C device on the daughter board is a member of the Virtex-4 family of FPGAs. The Virtex-4 family is comprised of 17 devices in total, over three platform families – LX, SX and FX. The LX series, of which the daughter board device is a member, provide a high performance solution for logic applications. The Virtex-4 family provides devices offering densities ranging from 12,312 to 200,448 Logic Cells. The XC4VLX25-10FF668C offers 24,192 Logic Cells.