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

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Kit Overview

Development Tools

Technical Documents

Video

Features

Kit Contents

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.

Development Tools

Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	Supported Family	MPN	Description
IDE	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	Altera Quartus II	It's the industry's number one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, and HardCopy ASIC designs. The Altera Quartus II software, the industry's number one software in performance and productivity for CPLD, FPGA, and HardCopy ASIC designs. Learn More

Hardware Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	Support?ed Family	MPN	Description
Download Cable	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	PL-BYTEBLASTER2NPL-BYTEBLASTER2N	The ByteBlaster II enables a PC to configure or program Altera devices. The download cable drives configuration or programming data using a standard parallel printer port from the PC.
Download Cable	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	PL-USB-BLASTER-RCNPL-USB-BLASTER-RCN	The USB-Blaster drives configuration or programming data from the PC to configure or program Altera devices. The download cable interfaces to a standard USB PC port.
Download Cable	Altera	ALL Altera Devices	PL-ETH2-BLASTERPL-ETH2-BLASTER	The EthernetBlaster can receive configuration or programming data from the Ethernet network to remotely configure or program Altera devices. The communications cable connects to a standard Ethernet network port with an RJ-45 connector.

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
User Guide	Altera: Quick Start Guide for Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit, 6G Edition
User Guide	Altera: User Guide for Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit, 6G Edition
Reference Manual	Altera: Reference Manual for Arria II GX FPGA Development Board, 6G Edition

Design Elements

Type	Description
Schematics	Altera: Schematics File for DK-DEV-2AGX260N Dev Kit
Layout	Altera: Layout File for DK-DEV-2AGX260N Dev Kit
BOM	Altera: BOM File for DK-DEV-2AGX260N Dev Kit
Application Library	Altera: Software Code for DK-DEV-2AGX260N Dev Kit

Video

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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

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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