The DE0 is a beginner friendly development kit for FPGA design, manufactured by Terasic [1].
The FPGA of the DE0 is the Cyclon III by Altera [2]. It offers a total of 15.408 Logic Elements (LEs) which is enough for the respective application purpose regarding the OpenLab project.
Figure 1 shows the front of the DE0 development board
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== Detailed specification (taken from [1])
* FPGA
** Cyclone III 3C16 FPGA
*** 15,408 LEs
*** 56 M9K Embedded Memory Blocks
*** 504K total RAM bits
*** 56 embedded multipliers
*** 4 PLLs
*** 346 user I/O pins
*** FineLine BGA 484-pin package
* Memory
** SDRAM
*** One 8-Mbyte Single Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic RAM memory chip
** Flash memory
*** 4-Mbyte NOR Flash memory
*** Support Byte (8-bits)/Word (16-bits) mode
** SD card socket
*** Provides both SPI and SD 1-bit mode SD Card access
*Interface
** Built-in USB Blaster circuit
*** On-board USB Blaster for programming
*** Using the Altera EPM240 CPLD
** Altera Serial Configuration device
*** Altera EPCS4 serial EEPROM chip
** Pushbutton switches
*** 3 pushbutton switches
** Slide switches
*** 10 Slide switches
** General User Interfaces
*** 10 Green color LEDs
*** 4 seven-segment displays
*** 16x2 LCD Interface (Not include LCD module)
** Clock inputs
*** 50-MHz oscillator
** VGA output
*** Uses a 4-bit resistor-network DAC
*** With 15-pin high-density D-sub connector
*** Supports up to 1280x1024 at 60-Hz refresh rate
** Serial ports
*** One RS-232 port (Without DB-9 serial connector)
*** One PS/2 port (Can be used through a PS/2 Y Cable to allow you to connect a keyboard and mouse to one port)
** Two 40-pin expansion headers
*** 72 Cyclone III 3.3V I/O pins, as well as 8 power and ground lines, are brought out to two 40-pin expansion connectors
*** 40-pin header is designed to accept a standard 40-pin ribbon cable used for IDE hard drives
