EP4CE6E22 FPGA Core Development Board (Cyclone IV)

Description

The EP4CE6E22 FPGA Development Board is engineered for digital design exploration and embedded systems development. Its core is the Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE6E22 FPGA, offering a balance of logic elements and power efficiency for implementing custom processors, state machines, and hardware accelerators. The board integrates essential peripherals, including a CH340 USB-to-UART bridge for serial communication and a W25Q SPI flash chip for persistent configuration storage, streamlining the development workflow.

Power management is a key feature, with user-selectable I/O voltage levels from 1.2V to 5V, allowing direct connection to 3.3V microcontrollers, 5V legacy systems, or low-voltage sensors without external level shifters. The dual onboard oscillators provide stable clock sources for the FPGA core and external interfaces. With dedicated JTAG headers for programming via a USB Blaster and a USB Type-C port for power and data, the board offers a complete, self-contained environment for FPGA-based IoT and hardware prototyping projects.