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Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit
Altera Corporation
The Altera Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit
delivers a complete system-level design environment
that includes both the hardware and software needed
to immediately begin developing FPGA designs. With
this PCI-SIG-compliant board and a one-year license
for Quartus II design software, you can:
• Develop and test PCI Express 1.0 (up to x8 lane)
designs
• Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of
DDR2 and/or DDR3 memory
• Develop and test designs based on other Arria II
GX supported protocol interfaces such as Gigabit
Ethernet, SDI, CPRI, OBSAI, SAS/SATA, and
Serial RapidIO.
Features
• Arria II GX EP2AGX125EF35 FPGA
• On-board ports
 One HSMC expansion port
 One gigabit Ethernet port
• On-board memory
 128-MB 16-bit DDR3 device
 1-GB 64-bit DDR2 SODIMM
 2-MB SSRAM
 64-MB flash
• On-board clocking circuitry
 Four on-board oscillators
 100 MHz
 Programmable oscillator, default frequency
125 MHz
 Programmable oscillator, default frequency
100 MHz
 155.52 MHz
 SMA connectors for clock input/output
• General user I/O
 LEDs/displays
Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit
Altera Corporation
Altera's Cyclone® IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit
provides a low-cost platform for developing
transceiver I/O-based FPGA designs. This kit
includes the complete hardware and software for you
to:
• Develop your FPGA design for cost-sensitive
applications
• Measure the FPGA's low power consumption
• Test signal quality of the FPGA transceiver I/Os
(up to 2.5 Gbps)
• Develop and test PCI Express® 1.0 endpoint x1
lane designs (~250-Mbps transfer rate)
Features
• Cyclone IV GX transceiver starter board
• Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX15BF14C8N FPGA
• MAX® II CPLD EPM2210 System Controller
enabling passive serial (PS) configuration from
flash
• Embedded USB-Blaster™ for using the Quartus II
Programmer
• JTAG header for external USB-Blaster
• Altera EPCS serial configuration device
• FPGA clock sources: 50 MHz, 125 MHz, and SMA
clock input
• Other on-board oscillators: 6 MHz, 24 MHz, and 25
MHz
• LEDs
• Two-line character LCD display
• Push-buttons
• 16 MB of flash
• 2 MB of synchronous SRAM
• PCI Express edge connector
• 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY with RJ-45
connector or one transceiver to SMA connectors
(requires a minor board modification)
• On-board power measurement circuitry
• Laptop DC input
• PCI Express edge connector
• Power management solution from Linear
Technology
• PCI Express low-profile (6.6" x 2.713") board form
factor