# DECA_board

**Repository Path**: x55aa/DECA_board

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: DECA_board
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- **Created**: 2021-12-27
- **Last Updated**: 2021-12-27

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## README

# DECA Development Kit

The DECA Development Kit presents a robust hardware design platform built around the Altera MAX 10 FPGA, which is the industry’s first single chip, non-volatile programmable logic devices (PLDs) to integrate the optimal set of system components. Users can now leverage the power of tremendous re-configurability paired with a high-performance, low-power FPGA system. Providing internally stored dual images with self-configuration, comprehensive design protection features, integrated ADCs and hardware to implement the Nios II 32-bit microcontroller IP, MAX10 devices are ideal solution for system management, I/O expansion, communication control planes, industrial, automotive and consumer applications. The DECA development board is equipped with high-speed DDR3 memory, video and audio capabilities, Ethernet networking, and much more that promise many exciting applications. 

The folders contain the following information:

* **Tutorials**: Porting cores tutorials, DeMiSTify, ...

* **Documents**: Various useful documentation (schematics, images, ...)

* **Deca_pinout**:  Pinout of the Deca board Beaglebone Black connectors

* **Sdram_mister_deca**:  Hack to easily adapt a Mister SDRAM memory module to your Deca board

* **Litex**: Deca board target with Mister SDRAM for [Litex](https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex) and Litex examples

* **FuseSoC**: Tutorial on FuseSoC with Deca board

* **Cores**: Sample cores 

* **Templates**: Design templates for Quartus projects

  

## **Useful resources:**

* Cores development for the DECA FPGA board https://github.com/DECAfpga

* [DECA resources list](resources.md) 

* [Porting cores tutorial](./Tutorials/Porting-Cores)

* Buy it for $37 at Arrow https://www.arrow.com/en/products/deca/arrow-development-tools  (NOT AVAILABLE). The only way to buy it ATM is on some Ebay or Aliexpress resellers at a much higher cost.

* Intel Community Knowledge Base -DECA https://community.intel.com/t5/FPGA-Wiki/DECA/ta-p/735458

* Board review by Tom Verbeure https://tomverbeure.github.io/2021/04/23/Arrow-DECA-FPGA-board.html (explains IO bank voltages)

  

## **Quartus configuration**

* Device: 10M50DAF484C6GES

* Device and Pin options > Configuration> Single Uncompressed image with Memory initialization (512 kbits UFM)  ([see notes](http://retroramblings.net/?p=1509))

  

![max10-config-mode](max10-config-mode.png)



### **Similar boards**

* DE10-Lite (MAX10 10M50DAF484C7G)



## Contact media

* [Telegram group](https://t.me/Deca_Max10_FPGA) 
* [Discord channel](https://discord.gg/YDdmtwh)