Waveshare ALTERA CoreEP4CE6 Core Board FPGA development tool

Waveshare ALTERA CoreEP4CE6 FPGA Core Board is a compact and reliable development platform built around the Altera Cyclone IV EP4CE6E22C8N FPGA. It integrates essential circuits such as clock and configuration, making it suitable for rapid prototyping, FPGA learning, and embedded system development. With its 2.54mm header pitch design, the board can be easily plugged into application systems, while providing full access to all I/O pins for expansion. Onboard debugging and configuration interfaces ensure convenient programming and testing, making this core board ideal for both educational and industrial projects.

JTAG Interface

CoreEP4CE6 provides JTAG debugging interface, yet does NOT integrate any debugging function, a debugger is required.
Mother board and programmer/debugger in the photos are NOT included in the price.

The figure below shows the header pinout of JTAG

What's On Board

1. EP4CE6E22C8N:the ALTERA Cyclone IV FPGA device which features:
   • Operating Frequency: 50MHz
   • Operating Voltage: 1.15V～3.465V
   • Package: QFP144
   • I/Os: 80
   • LEs: 6K
   • RAM: 270kb
   • PLLs: 2
   • Debugging/Programming: supports JTAG
2. AMS1117-3.3, 3.3V voltage regulator
3. AMS1117-2.5, 2.5V voltage regulator
4. AMS1117-1.2, 1.2V voltage regulator
5. EPCS16, onboard serial FLASH memory, for storing code
6. Power indicator
7. LEDs
8. Reset button
9. nCONFIG button: for re-configuring the FPGA chip, the equivalent of power reseting
10. Power switch
11. 50M active crystal oscillator
12. 5V DC jack
13. JTAG interface: for debugging/programming
14. FPGA pins expander, VCC, GND and all the I/O ports are accessible on expansion connectors for further expansion
15. LED jumpers

Resources

• User Manual
• Schematic
• Demo Code: Verilog | VHDL | NIOS
• Pin Configuration
• Software
• Datasheets

Part List

• CoreEP4CE6 core board x 1
• USB power cable x 1