Altera: DK-START-4CGX15N Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit

Overview

The Altera's DK-START-4CGX15NDK-START-4CGX15N Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit provides a low-cost platform for developing transceiver I/O-based FPGA designs. The Cyclone IV GX transceiver starter board provides a hardware platform for developing and prototyping low-power, high-volume, feature-rich designs as well as to demonstrate the Cyclone IV GX device's on-chip memory, embedded multipliers, and the Nios II embedded soft processor.

The board provides peripherals and memory interfaces to facilitate the development of the Cyclone IV GX transceiver designs.The Cyclone IV GX transceiver starter board is especially suitable for cost-sensitive applications that require high-speed transceivers and power integrity solutions.

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 (PCIe) 1.0 endpoint x1 lane designs (~250-MBps transfer rate)

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

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Kit Features

The board features the following major component blocks:

• Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX15BF14 EP4CGX15BF14 FPGA in the 169-pin FineLine BGA (FBGA) package
  • 14,400 LEs
  • 540-kilobit (Kb) on-die memory
  • 20 global clocks
  • 72 user I/Os
  • 3 phase locked loops (PLLs)
  • 1 PCI Express hard IP block
  • 1.2-V core power
• MAX II EPM2210F256EPM2210F256 CPLD in the 256-pin FBGA package
  • 2.5-V core power
• MAX II EPM240M100 EPM240M100 CPLD in the 100-pin Micro FBGA (MBGA) package
• FPGA configuration circuitry
  • MAX II CPLD EPM2210 EPM2210 System Controller and flash passive serial (PS) configuration
  • On-board USB-BlasterTM for use with the Quartus II Programmer
  • JTAG header for external USB-Blaster with the Quartus II Programmer
  • Erasable programmable configurable serial (EPCS) device
• On-Board ports
  • USB 2.0
  • One gigabit Ethernet port
• Transceiver interfaces
  • PCI Express x1 edge connector
  • 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector
  • One optional TX/RX transceiver to SMA connectors (requires a minor modification on the board)
• On-Board memory
  • 18-megabit (Mb) Synchronous Static Random Access Memory (SSRAM)
  • 128-Mb flash
• On-Board clocking circuitry
  • 6-MHz, 24-MHz, 25-MHz, and 50-MHz oscillators
  • 125-MHz LVDS oscillator
  • SMA clock input
• General user I/O
  • LEDs and display
    • Four FPGA user LEDs
    • One configuration done LED
    • One max error LED
    • Five Ethernet status LEDs
    • One USB status LED
    • One power status LED
    • Two PGM LEDs
    • A two-line character LCD display
  • Push-Button switches
    • One CPU reset push-button switch
    • One MAX II configuration reset push-button switch
    • One PGM configure push-button switch (configure the FPGA from flash memory)
    • One PGM select push-button switch (select image to load from flash memory)
    • Two general user push-button switches
  • DIP switches
    • Board setting DIP switch
    • Configuration setting DIP switch
• Power supply
  • 9-V – 16-V DC input
  • 2.5-mm barrel jack for DC power input
  • On/Off slide power switch
  • On-Board power measurement circuitry
• Mechanical
  • 6.6” x 2.713” board
  • PCI Express chassis or bench-top operation

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Kit Contents

The Altera's DK-START-4CGX15N Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit supplied with below contents:

• Cyclone IV GX transceiver starter board
• Power adapter and cables
• Complete documentation
• Quartus II Software Web Edition
• ModelSim-Altera Starter Edition
• Nios II Embedded Design Suite

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