The Altera® Stratix® IV GX FPGA Development Kit deliver a complete system-level design environment that includes both the hardware and software needed to immediately begin developing FPGA designs.
The following list describes what you can accomplish with the kit:
- Develop and test PCI Express® (PCIe) 2.0 designs
- Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of DDR3 and QDR II+ memories
- Build designs capable of migrating to Altera’s low-cost HardCopy® IV ASICs
- Take advantage of the modular and scalable design by using the high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors to interface to over 20 different HSMCs provided by Altera partners, supporting protocols such as Serial RapidIO®, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) and others
Now let us know about some important features accompanist by the board:
Featured devices
- Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230KF40C2N FPGA or,
- Stratix IV GX EP4SGX530KH40C2N FPGA
Configuration status and set-up elements
- Fast passive parallel (FPP) configuration via a MAX® II EPM2210 CPLD and flash memory
- On-board USB-BlasterTM download cable using Quartus II Programmer
Clocks
- On-board clock oscillators: 50 MHz, 100 MHz, 125 MHz, 148.5 MHz, 155.52 MHz, and 156.25 MHz
- SMA connectors for external clock input
- SMA connectors for clock output
General user input/output
- LEDs
- LCD display
- Push-button and dual in-line package (DIP) switches
Memory devices
- 512-MB DDR3 SDRAM with a 64-bit data bus
- 128-MB DDR3 SDRAM with a 16-bit data bus
- Two 4-MB QDR II+ SRAMs with 18-bit data buses
- 64-MB sync flash and 2-MB SSRAM
Component and interfaces
- PCI Express x8 edge connector
- 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector
- Two HSMC connectors
- HDMI video output
- 3G-SDI video input and output
- Power measurement circuitry
- Temperature measurement circuitry
Power
- Laptop DC input
- PCI Express edge connector power
- Power measurement circuitry
Other features
- PCI Express half-length, full-height (6.6″ x 4.376″) board format
- RoHS compliant
Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA Development Kit Block Diagram
At last we can conclude saying Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA Development Kit is a cost sensitive and low power consumption board.
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