Are you the proud owner of the Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition?

If so, then this page is dedicated to you.

• Download way cool new demos on your SD Card!
• Download hardware designs and source code for new designs
• Post your own designs, tips and documents for the Nios II Embedded kit

Design examples available for download from Altera and Altera partners

• NEW! VGA Application Selector Updater
  • Now that you have the awesome Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit, you are going to need to show off the cool demos that you and others have built to your friends and co-workers. Do it in a big way; USE A PROJECTOR! Simply download the updater to your kit, attach a VGA cable and off you go!  
• Application Selector Utility
  • This handy dandy utility is the 'user interface' for the Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit. With this design you can use the LCD touch panel to scroll through a list of designs stored on the SD Card and load your design of choice. (See VGA Application Selector Updater to get a VGA compatible version of Application Selector)
• Mandelbrot Hardware Acceleration
  •  The Mandelbrot is an organically beautiful pattern with seemingly infinite variation! The demo however, is more than just a pretty picture: the Nios II C to Hardware (C2H) Compiler has been used to accelerate the Mandelbrot algorithm in hardware performing billions of computations a second!
• Web Server/Remote FPGA Configuration
  • Imagine this: You are sitting at your work station, your board is in your Lab, or maybe in a manufacturing facility in Neenah Wisconsin, or maybe in a research institute in Bangalore India. You just made a brilliant breakthrough and now you want to update your hardware with the latest FPGA image. Using the web server design, you can now update your hardware remotely from any where on the network! 
• Planetweb SpectraWorks Digital Photo Frame
  • Simply take your favorite JPEG Photos and watch them in your very own electronic photo album. This application , built using the amazing Spectraworks user interface platform displays your photos wither as a thumbnail or as a user configurable slideshow. Basic features include support for multiple albums, zoom, pan, rotate, transition effects and more.
• Planetweb SpectraWorks GUI Demo
  • What is the first thing you would like to see on this demo? >Hello World?
  • Or... Fabulous graphics and beautiful anti-aliased text!
  • Based on the SpectraWorks User Interface platform from Planetweb see examples of smooth animation, beautiful test in multiple typefaces, dynamically scalable widgets and the ability to re-skin any application without making any changes to the source code!
• IMAGEM Technology Demo
  • Evaluate Imagems Graphics and video capabilities in the most fun way possible; Play the game Tacquin!
  • Tacquin is a puzzle that you solve by touching squares on the LCD touch panel.
  • You can use your favorite pic or even Live Video as the puzzle
• TES D/AVE Graphics Accelerator Demo
  • Astonishing automotive demos using the TES D/AVE Graphics Accelerator. Witness first hand the power of hardware acceleration as the innovative rendering engine D/AVE IP performs Anti-Aliasing with Subpixel Accuracy, vector graphics, additive blending and much more.