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

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Kit Overview

Development Tools

Technical Documents

Video

Features

Kit Contents

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.

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 Transceiver Starter Kit Edition
User Guide	Altera: User Guide for Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit
Reference Manual	Altera: Reference Manual for Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Board

Design Elements

Type	Description
Schematics	Altera: Schematics File for DK-START-4CGX15N Dev Kit
Layout	Altera: Layout File for DK-START-4CGX15N Dev Kit
BOM	Altera: BOM File for DK-START-4CGX15N Dev Kit
Application Library	Altera: Software Code for DK-START-4CGX15N Dev Kit

Video

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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

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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