Altera MAX V CPLD Development Board - UnoProLogic

Works great with Quartus. Easy to "program" and the 5v IO makes it easy to use.

Not very user-friendly. Documentation, They have. But lots missing. The docs end after a lot of beginner-friendly setup, but before giving useful examples.For example, they say they have 24 IO pins that are 5v tolerant. But the there are a total of 32 header pins. Which 24 pins of those 32 easily-accessible pins are 5v tolerant? They don't say in the documentation. They don't even give a picture to help regarding where I can find those.I can see where the 5v compatible bus chips are close to certain pins. So I can make a reasonable guess, but there are ~ 6 dubious pins, and I will have to test to find the limits.Drivers were a pain to install.Couldn't get this to work on a window 7 PC. Nor an emulated (arm) windows11 pc. Finally had to buy a PC with windows 11 to get this to work.

I was excited to try a MAX V without spending a ton on an official eval board. Unfortunately, this one misses the mark. Although I suppose some people want level translation on every single pin, the level translators will only work in one direction at a time. This means that for each group of eight pins, you can only communicate in one direction. Although you can change said direction, it makes for a very inconvenient pin placement.The bigger issue is that the drivers provided for the FT2232 USB->JTAG adapter are unsigned. Furthermore, they appear not to work in Quartus Prime Lite 18.1.0, rendering this board essentially useless.

It was relatively easy to program after following some simple tutorials online

I purchased this board to fix an interface problem I was having. I was hoping for more examples to help me get started but this is not the case. The lack of examples has kept me from using it. Very disappointing!

It has been a decade since I did any CPLD/FPGA design so I bought this hoping for something that was low-cost and easy to get started. This looks to have worked quite well for that.The board is designed to fit on an Arduino and seems to be targeted towards high-speed data capture. I haven't used it for data capture but there is plenty of documentation and samples on it. You don't need an Arudino to use it. The board powers over the JTAG programmer USB port so the board can be used fine without being connected to anything else.There is good documentation, drivers, and a copy of Quartus on the cdrom. It was an old version of Quartus but a great addition for people with a slow Internet connection. The CPLD used is supported by the free version of Quartus. The documentation was great for getting up and running quickly.One really nice feature is the inclusion of the FTDI mini module. This means the board has everything you need (except for mini usb cable) to get started. The mini module is removable so it could be used as a JTAG programmer for other devices. This makes the board a very good value. Many other dev boards either are missing a JTAG programmer or have them soldered in.Don't expect to be able to do very complex designs like CPUs. This is a pretty low-end chip. There is some available flash memory but no ram (have to use logic elements). Still this is plenty for beginners.Overall and great product for a first-time PLD. It doesn't do much but it is easy to use and very cheap. It got me excited about CPLD/FPGA development again.

Shipped at stated, supplied with CD with drivers and some instructions. If you are interested in using for Oscilloscope then original article download is needed.

The drivers are outdated and will not work on a Windows 10 environment. Because of this, I was forced to buy a CPLD evaluation board from a distributor in order to finish my project.