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Altera MAX® 10 10M08 Evaluation Kits

Altera MAX® 10 10M08 Evaluation Kits are entry-level kits designed to help users quickly develop embedded control applications through Arduino daughter cards and GPO. Arduino provides access to a vast connectivity ecosystem and peripheral options like Servos, sensors, and displays. The Altera MAX 10 10M08 evaluation kits include essential components: a potentiometer, switches, and LEDs. These kits support a wide range of applications, I/O expansion, analog interface control, stepper motor control, interface bridging, power management control, configuration, and initialization control. The MAX 10 10M08 evaluation kits are used in I/O expansion, analog interface control, power management control, and stepper motor control applications.

Features

  • Altera MAX 10 FPGA, 10M08SAE144C8G (or ES variant)
    • 8K logic elements (LE)
    • 378Kb M9K memory
    • 32KB to 172KB user flash memory
    • One analog-to-digital (ADC) converter, 1 million samples per second (MSPS), 12-bit
  • FPGA configuration circuitry
    • JTAG header for external USB-Blaster™, USB-Blaster II, or Ethernet Blaster download cable
    • Flash storage for two configuration images (factory and user)
    • Dual-image self-configuration via Programmer Object File (.pof)
    • Temporary engineering debug of FPGA design via SRAM Object File (.sof)
  • Onboard clocking circuitry - 50MHz oscillator (replaceable) connected to FPGA global clock input
  • Onboard potentiometer
  • User LEDs, DIP switches, and push buttons
  • Replaceable oscillator
  • USB connector
  • General user I/O
    • 8x analog input I/O, 14x Arduino I/O, and 40x general-purpose I/O
    • 5x red user-defined LEDs
    • 1x green LED to show power from USB cable
  • Push button and DIP switches
    • 1x reconfiguration push button
    • 1x device-wide reset of all registers, push button
    • User DIP switch
  • Power
    • Powered via a USB cable (from PC or wall jack)
    • 1x green power-on LED
    • Probe points for manual multimeter measurement of current to calculate power consumption or to verify voltages on the selected internal nodes

Applications

  • Motor control
  • SPI-to-I2C bridge function
  • Analog interface control
  • Power management control
  • GPIO and I2C expansion

Customer Use Cases

  • Develop embedded solutions like robotics, home automation, and IoT devices connecting with widely available Arduino UNO R3 compatible boards
  • Configure the FPGA by using a JTAG connector
  • Reuse the kit’s board layout and schematic to accelerate designs
  • Start immediately with the free version of Quartus® Prime Lite Edition Software. Quartus Prime is an intuitive high-performance design tool that supports design entry, synthesis, optimization, verification, and simulation.
  • Comes with a complete kit installation package that includes the schematics, layout, and Bill of Materials (BOM) making the design implementation easy

Kit Contents

  • MAX 10M08 evaluation board
  • Power adapter
  • USB cable
  • Quartus Prime Lite Edition Software
  • Kit installation package

Videos

Block Diagram

Block Diagram - Altera MAX® 10 10M08 Evaluation Kits

Overview

Location Circuit - Altera MAX® 10 10M08 Evaluation Kits

Onboard Components

Altera MAX® 10 FPGAs

Single-chip solution that integrates advanced processing, non-volatile flash memory, RAM, and ADCs.

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Development Tools

Altera DK-DEV-10M50F484-B MAX® 10 FPGA Evaluation Kit

Provides an easy-to-use platform for evaluating the MAX® 10 FPGA technology.

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Altera DK-DEV-10M50-C MAX® 10 FPGA Development Kit

Includes a MAX® 10 development board, power adapter, and mini-B USB to USB cable.

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Altera MAX® 10 FPGA Evaluation Boards

General-purpose development platforms for applications like industrial and automotive.

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Terasic Technologies DE10-Lite Board

A robust hardware design platform built around the Altera MAX 10 Field-Programmable Gate Array.

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Design Software

Altera Quartus® Prime Design Software

Multi-platform design environment for all phases of FPGA and CPLD design.

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Published: 2019-08-27 | Updated: 2025-04-24