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Chapter 1

Introduction of the tPad

The tPad FPGA Development Kit is a comprehensive design environment with everything

embedded developers need to create processing-based systems. The tPad delivers an integrated

platform that includes hardware, design tools, intellectual property (IP) and reference designs for

developing embedded software and hardware platform in a wide range of applications. The fully

integrated kit allows developers to rapidly customize their processor and IP to best suit their specific

application. The tPad features the DE2-115 development board targeting the Cyclone IV E FPGA,

as well as a LCD multimedia color touch panel and a 5-Megapixel digital image sensor module.

The tPad is preconfigured with an FPGA hardware reference design including several Ready-to-Run

demonstration applications stored on the provided SD-Card. Software developers can use these

reference designs as their platform to quickly architect, develop and build complex embedded

systems. By simply scrolling through the demo of your choice on the LCD multimedia color touch

panel, you can evaluate numerous processor system designs.

The all-in-one embedded solution offered on the tPad, in combination of the LCD touch panel and

digital image module, provide embedded developers the ideal platform for multimedia applications

with unparallel processing performance. Developers can benefit from the use of FPGA-based

embedded processing system such as mitigate design risk and obsolescence, design reuse, reducing

bill of material (BOM) costs by integrating powerful graphics engines within the FPGA, and lower

cost.

Figure 1-1 shows a photograph of the tPad.

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