Kit Contents
You should receive the following items with your Mulldonoch 3 development kit:
1 – Mulldonoch 3 Board
2 – Programming adapter
You will also need a programming cable – either Enterpoint's PROG4 cable or an Altera USB
Blaster (or equivalent).
Foreword
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE MANUAL BEFORE PLUGGING IN
OR POWERING UP YOUR MULLDONOCH 3 BOARD.
PLEASE TAKE SPECIAL NOTE OF THE WARNINGS WITHIN
THIS MANUAL.
Trademarks
Cyclone-V, Altera, Quartus II and QSys are the registered trademarks of Altera Corporation, San
Jose, California, US.
Mulldonoch 3 is a trademark of Enterpoint Ltd.
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Introduction
Welcome to your Mulldonoch 3 board. Mulldonoch 3 is an FPGA development board in a Mini-
ITX format based on the Altera Cyclone™ V SOC. Mulldonoch 3 aims to do all the normal things
you expect of a motherboard, with a baseline of a dual core ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor, the
Linux™ operating system, and a fast bring up of your basic system. An Altera® SOC couples the
dual A9 cores with programmable hardware acceleration of heavyweight software routines and
algorithms allowing this SOC based motherboard to boost performance by up to X10 that of
competing conventional motherboards and processors.
The advantages of Mulldonoch 3 do not end there. Using ultra-high speed PCI Express® links as an
interconnect Mulldonoch 3 offers an extensive expansion capability with standard Mini-PCIe® card
sockets and a standard X4 PCI Express® socket.
A further high bandwidth custom expansion interface supports Enterpoint off the shelf and full
custom mezzanine boards for those unusual applications where standard expansion cards don’t meet
requirements. More mundanely the product can sup-port human interface and industrial control
panels through simple GPIO, opto-isolated GPIO and internal USB3 features.
Mulldonoch 3 is a good solution for many industrial applications even on its own. However,
Mulldonoch 3 offers a wide range of expansion options to provide extra processing or I/O
capabilities via conventional expansion sockets and further custom options.
The first expansion option is the X4 PCI Express® socket which can take a conventional PCIe®
card for low cost standard card add-ons or advanced options like Enterpoint’s Raggedstone 3 FPGA
board.
The second expansion option uses the available Mini-PCIe® sockets to host industry standard Mini-
PCIe® cards. These cards can offer an extensive range of options including graphics, SATA, SSD,
RS232 and Ethernet. When standard cards don’t meet requirements, Enterpoint’s mezzanine add-
ons can solve the problem. We will be offering a range of off the shelf and full custom mezzanines
to accompany Mulldonoch 3. Enterpoint can offer a fast turn design and manufacture service for
your custom mezzanine requirements.
The Mulldonoch 3 design allows it to be a system development board but its versatility does not
stop there. Without the pain of porting software and FPGA fabric designs your Mulldonoch 3
development platform can seamlessly transform into being your long term system motherboard. Its
Mini-ITX board format allows it to be used with a wide range of low cost standard cases for the
desktop, rack, or vehicle applications and Enterpoint can also offer customised Bill of Materials and
PCB options for customers with annual volume needs as low as 10 or as high as 1 million. Please
contact us on
boardsales@enterpoint.co.uk
should you need further information.
The aim of this manual is to assist in using the main features of Mulldonoch 3.
There are features that are beyond the scope of the manual. Should you need to use these features
then please email
support@enterpoint.co.uk
for detailed instructions.
Mulldonoch 3 is currently fitted with a 5CSXF6C6C6U23C8N Cyclone™ V device. Other variants
may be offered at a later date or as an OEM product.
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