Cyclone III FPGAs • March 2007 • www.altera.com



Nios II embedded processor

Get the performance you need with the right feature set and keep costs down.

With the versatility of our Nios® II soft-core embedded processor, you can build

an exact-fit processor, customized for your application in minutes. A Nios II

processor implemented in a Cyclone III FPGA allows you to choose the exact set

of CPUs, peripherals, and interfaces that you need ,and to remotely upgrade in the

field. You can address changing requirements to stay competitive. You can also

increase performance without changing your board design—accelerating only

functions that need it and combining many functions onto one chip. With the

Nios II embedded processor, you’ll lower overall cost, design complexity, and

power consumption. Assemble an exact-fit processor system every time with the

world’s most versatile processor.

Low-cost development kits and free reference designs

The Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit is available today to get your next design up

and running in hardware as quickly as possible. Whether your’re designing for

communications, embedded systems hardware or software, or vertical market areas

such as video and image processing, display, wireless, or another high-volume, cost-

sensitive application, Altera and partner development kits give you everything you

need to create and implement your design right out of the box.

Intellectual property

Altera and its partners provide

off-the-shelf intellectual

property (IP) cores. You can

use these pre-optimized cores

easily, reducing design and

test time.

Device

E144

Q240

F256

F324

F484

F780

U256

U484

EP3C5

94

182

182

EP3C10

94

182

182

EP3C16

84

160

168

346

168

346

EP3C25

82

148

156

215

156

EP3C40

128

195

331

535

331

EP3C55

327

377

217

EP3C80

295

429

295

EP3C120

283

531

Cyclone III device overview

Device

LEs

M9K

Memory

Blocks

Total

Memory

(Mbits)

Multipliers

PLLs

Total Global

Clocks

Maximum

User I/O

Pins

EP3C5

5,136

46

0.4

23

2

10

182

EP3C10

10,320

46

0.4

23

2

10

182

EP3C16

15,408

56

0.5

56

4

20

346

EP3C25

24,624

66

0.6

66

4

20

215

EP3C40

39,600

126

1.1

126

4

20

535

EP3C55

55,856

260

2.3

156

4

20

377

EP3C80

81,264

305

2.7

244

4

20

428

EP3C120

119,088

432

3.9

288

4

20

531

Device features

that deliver functionality.

A selection of low-cost packages

and user I/O pin counts.

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For more information on packages, see Cyclone FPGA Series Package and I/O Matrix at www.altera.com/selectorguides.