Altera: DK-DEV-4CGX150N Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit

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Overview

The Altera®'s DK-DEV-4CGX150NDK-DEV-4CGX150N Cyclone® IV GX FPGA Development Kit provides a comprehensive, best-in-class design environment to quickly begin developing low-cost and low-power FPGA system-level designs. The PCI-SIG-compliant board, high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC), and the license-free Quartus® II Web Edition software provide everything you need to begin developing custom Cyclone IV GX FPGA designs. This kit helps to shorten your product’s development cycle so that you can meet your product’s time to market and production milestones.

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

Develop and test PCI Express® Gen1 x1, x2, x4 endpoint designs using the Cyclone IV GX PCI Express hard intellectual property (IP) and PCI-SIG®-compliant board.
Develop and test multi-lane protocol bridging designs using on-board DDR2 memory and through its expansion capability, the high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors. There are over 30 different HSMCs available through Altera partners and supporting protocols such as CPRI, SATA, and SDI.
Come up to speed quickly with your FPGA design by reusing the example designs provided by the kit's Board Test System.
Use the kit´s host board as design model for your product’s low-cost and low-power board.
Test signal quality of the FPGA transceiver I/Os (up to 3.125 Gbps)
Develop embedded designs utilizing the Nios® II processor and the SSRAM memory.
Take advantage of the modular and scalable design by using the high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors to interface to over 30 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 and volume production.
Measure the FPGA's low power consumption.

Key Applications: Broadcast, Consumer, Consumer, Industrial, Wireless, Wireline.

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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 Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit
User Guide	Altera: User Guide for Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit
Reference Manual	Altera: Reference Manual for Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Board
Datasheet	Altera: Datasheet for Cyclone IV Device Datasheet
Datasheet	Altera: Datasheet for Cyclone IV Device Handbook

Design Elements

Type	Description
Schematics	Altera: Schematics File for DK-DEV-4CGX150N Dev Kit
Layout	Altera: Layout File for DK-DEV-4CGX150N Dev Kit
BOM	Altera: BOM File for DK-DEV-4CGX150N Dev Kit
Application Library	Altera: Software Code for DK-DEV-4CGX150N Dev Kit

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Kit Features

The board features the following major component blocks:

Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX150DF31 FPGA in the 896-pin FineLine BGA (FBGA) package
- 1.2-V core power
MAX® II EPM2210GF256EPM2210GF256 CPLD in the 256-pin FBGA package
- 1.8-V core power
FPGA configuration circuitry
- MAX II CPLD EPM2210 EPM2210 System Controller and flash fast passive parallel (FPP) configuration
- Active serial configuration
- On-board USB-BlasterTM for use with the Quartus® II Programmer
- JTAG header for external USB-Blaster with the Quartus II Programmer
On-Board ports
- Embedded USB-Blaster
- One gigabit Ethernet port
Communication ports
- PCI Express (PCIe) edge connector
- 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector
- Two High-Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC) interfaces
On-Board memory
- 4-MB (x16) Synchronous Static Random Access Memory (SSRAM)
- Two 32-MB (x32) DDR2 SDRAM
- 64-MB flash
On-Board clocking circuitry
- 50.000-MHz oscillator
- 125.000-MHz oscillator
- SMA clock input
- SMA clock output
- Programmable oscillator (default: 100.000-MHz)
General user I/O
- LEDs and display
  - Eight FPGA user LEDs
  - One configuration done LED
  - One error LED
  - Five Ethernet status LEDs
  - One USB status LED
  - One power status LED
  - Five configuration LEDs
  - A two-line 16-character LCD display
- Push-Button switches
  - One CPU reset push-button switch
  - One MAX II configuration reset push-button switch
  - One program-load push-button switch—configure the FPGA from flash memory
  - One program-select push-button switch—select image to load from flash memory or serial configuration (EPCS) device
  - Four general user push-button switches
- DIP switches
  - Board settings DIP switch
  - JTAG chain select DIP switch
  - PCIe control DIP switch
  - Configuration settings DIP switch
  - User DIP switch
Power supply
- 16-V DC input
- 2.5-mm barrel jack for DC power input
- On/Off slide power switch
- On-Board power measurement circuitry
- 20-W per HSMC interface
Mechanical
- PCIe small form factor board
- Bench-top operation

Kit Contents

The Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit includes:

Hardware:

Cyclone IV GX FPGA development board—A development platform that allows you to develop and prototype hardware designs running on the Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX150DF31 FPGA.
HSMC loopback board—A daughtercard that allows for loopback testing all signals on the HSMC interface using the Board Test System.
HSMC debug breakout board—A daughtercard that routes 40 CMOS signals to a 0.1" header and adds 20 LEDs to the remaining 40 CMOS signals.
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 Web Edition Software
Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit Installer

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