Altera: DK-DEV-2AGX260N Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit (6G Edition)

Overview

The Altera DK-DEV-2AGX260NDK-DEV-2AGX260N Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit, 6G Edition is a complete design environment that includes both the hardware and software you need to develop Arria II GX FPGA designs. The PCI-SIG compliant board and the one-year license for the Quartus II software provide everything you need to begin developing custom Arria II GX FPGA designs.

The Arria II GX FPGA development board, 6G Edition provides a hardware platform for developing and prototyping low-power, high-performance, and logic-intensive designs. The board provides a wide range of peripherals and memory interfaces to facilitate the development of the Arria II GX FPGA designs. Two high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connector is available to add additional functionality via a variety of HSMCs available from Altera and various partners.

Design advancements and innovations, such as the 6.375-Gbps transceiver modules, the PCI Express hard IP implementation, and programmable power technology ensure that designs implemented in the Arria II GX FPGAs operate faster, with lower power, and have a faster time to market than previous FPGA families.

The following list describes what you can accomplish with the kit:

• Develop and test PCI Express (PCIe) designs
• Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of DDR2 and DDR3 memories
• 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
• Develop FPGAs design for cost-sensitive applications
• Measure the FPGA's low power consumption

Key Applications: Wireless, Wireline, Broadcast and Military.

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Kit Features

The Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit, 6G Edition is RoHS-compliant and features the following:

• Arria II GX EP2AGX260 FPGA in the 1,152-pin fine-pitch ball-grid array (BGA) package
  • 256,000 logic elements (LEs)
  • 102,600 adaptive logic modules (ALMs)
  • 11,756 Kb on-chip memory
  • 16 high-speed transceivers
  • 6 phase-locked loops (PLLs)
  • 736 18x18 multipliers
  • 0.9-V core power
  
• Max II EPM2210F256 EPM2210F256 CPLD in the 256-pin fine-pitch BGA package
  • 2.5-V core power
• Onboard ports
  • Two HSMC expansion ports
  • One GbE(Gigabit Ethernet) port
• Onboard memory
  • 128-MB 16-bit DDR3 device
  • 1-GB 64-bit DDR2 small outline DIMM (SODIMM)
  • 2-MB Synchronous Static Random Access Memory (SSRAM)
  • 64-MB flash memory
• FPGA configuration circuitry
  • MAX II CPLD and flash fast passive parallel configuration
  • Onboard USB-Blaster circuitry using the Quartus II Programmer
• Onboard clocking circuitry
  • Five onboard oscillators
    • 50-MHz oscillator
    • 100 MHz oscillator
    • Programmable oscillator, default frequency 125 MHz
    • Programmable oscillator, default frequency 100 MHz
    • 155.52 MHz oscillator
  • SMA connectors for external LVPECL clock input
  • SMA connector for clock output
• General user I/Os
  • LEDs/displays
    • Four user LEDs
    • Two-line character LCD display
    • One configuration-done LED
    • One HSMC interface transmit/receive LED
    • Three PCIe LEDs
    • Five Ethernet LEDs
• Push buttons
  • One user reset (CPU reset)
  • One MAX II CPLD reset
  • One load image CPLD EPM2210 EPM2210 System Controller configuration reset push-button switch
  • (program FPGA from flash)
  • One image select (select image to load from flash)
  • Two general user push buttons
• Dual in-line package (DIP) switches
  • Four user DIP switches
  • Eight MAX II device control DIP switches
• Power supply
  • 14-V to 20-V DC input
  • PCIe edge connector power
  • Onboard power measurement circuitry
• Mechanical
  • PCIe full-length standard-height (8.48” x 4.376”)
  • PCIe chassis or bench-top operation

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Kit Contents

Hardware:

• Arria II GX FPGA development board, 6G edition—A development platform that allows you to develop and prototype hardware designs running on the Arria II GX EP2AGX260 FPGA.
• Power supply and cables—The kit includes the following items:
  • Power supply and AC adapters for North America/Japan, Europe, and the United Kingdom
  • USB cable
  • Ethernet cable

Software:

• Quartus II Subscription Edition Software
• Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit, 6G Edition Installer

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