Gecko4Education

The GECKO4-Education platform has been developed as a low-cost small platform to serve as an enabler for our students to get hands-on experience with real hardware. The platform will be used for the practical works of their first two years of their bachelor studies.

The GECKO4-Education board can be used with the Quartus II Web Edition and with logisim-evolution. The heart of the GECKO4-Education board is an Altera Cyclone IV FPGA (EP4CE15F23C8).

Here you find the complete schematic of the GECKO4-Education board, and here you find a tcl-script containing all FPGA-connections that can be used with Quartus.

The information on the GECKO4-Education platform has been divided in following sub-pages:

• All information concerning the production of a GECKO4-Education board (restricted access).
• How to setup your board directly after production (restricted access).
• Using the Xmas tree; how to control the different LEDs.
• Using the DIP-switches and buttons.
• Using the on-board clock generators.
• Using the digilent PMOD connectors.
• Using the memory components.
• Using the analog-digital and digital-analog converters.
• Arduino Mega compatible connectors.