eService Digital OneChip Lab 12-A

 

eService Digital

OneChip Lab 12-A

 

Portable Cyclone-12 FPGA workstation — screen, keyboard, battery, and I/O in a single book-sized slab.

 

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1 | A “whole lab” you can open on any desk

 

OneChip Lab 12-A folds an Intel/Altera Cyclone EP1C12Q240 FPGA board, a 9.7-inch 1024 × 768 LCD (re-housed iPad 2 panel), a clicky PS/2 mechanical keyboard, battery pack, stereo speakers and lots of raw I/O into one rugged, hinged chassis. Flip it open and you have an instant test-bench for HDL classes, soft-CPU experiments, retro-core emulation or signal-processing prototypes—no external monitor, hub, or power brick required.

 

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2 | Why hardware tinkerers love it

 

💡  Feature	🚀  Practical upside
Cyclone EP1C12Q240 — 12 060 Logic Elements	Room for a 32-bit RISC-V, VGA controller, sprite blitter and GPIO all at once.
Block RAM 239 kbit + 32 MB SDRAM	Stage frame-buffers, LUTs, or micro-kernel code in on-board memory—no slow SPI flash swaps.
Built-in 1024 × 768 LCD & VGA/S-Video/CVBS out	Demo video pipelines on the internal panel, or drive a retro CRT for scan-line perfection.
True PS/2 mechanical keyboard (back-lit)	Low-latency input for soft-CPUs or FPGA-side USB host experiments without juggling HID cores.
Lithium battery + USB-C charge	Up to 5 h untethered compile-test cycles at meetups or lectures.
Expansion edge-bus & GPIO headers	Fly-lead your logic analyser, wire in LEDs, drive motors—no proprietary mezzanine cards.

Important: OneChip Lab ships as a blank FPGA canvas—no preloaded retro cores or CPUs. You bring the VHDL/Verilog and make the magic.

 

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3 | At-a-glance spec sheet

 

Block	Detail
FPGA	Cyclone EP1C12Q240 (12 060 LEs • 239 616 bit RAM • 2× PLL)
External RAM	32 MB 16-bit SDRAM @ 133 MHz
Display	9.7″ IPS, 1024 × 768, 4:3, 60 Hz
Video out	VGA –15 pin • S-Video mini-DIN • Composite (CVBS)
Input	63-key PS/2 mechanical board (hot-swappable caps)
Audio	Stereo 0.5 W speakers (PWM from FPGA)
Ports	PS/2, USB-C 5 V charge/serial, 2× 40-pin 3.3 V GPIO, JTAG
Battery	2-cell Li-ion 3 200 mAh (≈ 5 h mixed use)
Dimensions / mass	210 × 148 × 25 mm • 720 g
Dev tools	Quartus II v13.0sp1 (free), openFPGA-loader, LiteX, Amaranth

 

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4 | Package contents

 

Qty	Item
1	OneChip Lab 12-A unit (keyboard A or B layout)
1	USB-C → USB-A cable (power / UART)
1	Quick-start flyer with Git repo + schematic link

(JTAG USB-Blaster or GPIO jumpers not included.)

 

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5 | Common build ideas

 

 

• RISC-V Linux sandbox — LiteX-generated SoC with UART console on the LCD.

• 68000 retro micro — emulate a SEGA or Amiga core and drive a CRT over RGB-HV.

• Logic-analyser front-end — sample 32 channels into SDRAM, stream to host over UART.

• DIY synth — PWM audio core, PS/2 keyboard as note matrix, stereo out on board amps.

 

 

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6 | Documentation & support

 

 

 

• eService Digital 12-month advance-swap warranty—if the board arrives DOA or fails within a year, we ship you a replacement first.

• Community Discord for pinout questions, core swaps, and project showcases.

 

 

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OneChip Lab 12-A — open it anywhere, code any logic, see it on screen.

Add to cart now and turn your HDL PDFs into real silicon before the coffee cools.