NIOS-PROKIT-1S40, Nios II Development Kit, Stratix Professional Edition provides a hardware platform for developing embedded system based on Altera Stratix device. The Nios development board features a Stratix EP1S40F780 device with 41,250 logic elements (LEs) and 3,423,744 Kbits of on-chip memory. The Nios development board comes pre-programmed with a 32-bit Nios processor reference design. Hardware designers can use the reference design as an example of how to use the features of the Nios development board. Software designers can use the pre-programmed Nios processor design on the board to begin prototyping software immediately