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Foreword
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE MANUAL BEFORE PLUGGING IN
OR POWERING UP YOUR POLMADDIE7 BOARD.
PLEASE TAKE SPECIAL NOTE OF THE WARNINGS WITHIN
THIS MANUAL.
Trademarks
Intel, Quartus, Cyclone and NIOS are the registered trademarks of Intel Inc, San Jose, California,
US.
Polmaddie7 is a trademark of Enterpoint Ltd.
© Enterpoint Ltd. – Polmaddie7 Manual – Issue 1.0 04/05/2018
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Introduction
Figure 1 – Polmaddie7 Board
Welcome to your Polmaddie7 board. The Polmaddie series of CPLD/FPGA development boards
offer high quality, high user I/O, solutions for training and development purposes. Polmaddie7 is
targeted at students and engineers and offered at a competitive price point. The product is also in a
production friendly format allowing customers to incorporate this product as working OEM element
within their design. As with all Enterpoint board products we expect to offer this product for sale on
a long lifetime schedule from launch (2018) with an expected manufacturing lifecycle typically of
between 10 and 15 years. For more specific guarantees please contact us.
Enterpoint can offer custom board derivatives and further development assistance services to
customers wishing to base their project on a Polmaddie product but needing a more custom solution
for production equipment usage. Please contact us if you wish to know more.
Polmaddie7 features an Intel® Cyclone®10-LP FPGA which is highly flexible and facilitates
development of general logic or even simple microprocessor systems based on an Intel® NIOS®
processor. The standard FPGA fit on Polmaddie7 is a part number 10CL010YE144I7G. Other
variants can be offered subject to minimum order value or quantity. Please contact us if this of
interest for a quote.
The aim of this manual is to assist in using the main features of Polmaddie7. More extensive
support is available through our website
www.enterpoint.co.uk
or our support email -
support@enterpoint.co.uk.
© Enterpoint Ltd. – Polmaddie7 Manual – Issue 1.0 04/05/2018