The Altera® Arria® II GX FPGA Development Kit delivers a complete system-level design environment that includes both the hardware and software needed to immediately begin developing FPGA designs. With this PCI-SIG®-compliant board and a one-year license for Quartus® II design software, you can:
- Develop and test PCI Express® 1.0 (up to x8 lane) designs
- Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of DDR2 and DDR3 memory
- Develop and test designs based on other protocol interfaces supported by the Arria II GX FPGA, such as Gbps Ethernet (GbE), SDI, CPRI, OBSAI, SAS/SATA, and Serial RapidIO® (SRIO) . Many of these are supported by taking advantage of this board's modular capability through the high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors and over 20 different HSMC connectors available through Altera partners.
Development Kit Contents
The Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit is restriction of hazardeous substances (RoHS) compliant and features the following:
Arria II GX EP2AGX125EF35 FPGA in the 1152-pin fine-pitch ball-grid array (BGA) package
124,100 logic elements (LEs)
49,640 adaptive logic modules (ALMs)
8,121 kilobytes (KB) on-chip memory
12 high-speed transceivers
6 phase-locked loops (PLLs)
576 18x18 multipliers
0.9-V core power
MAX® II EPM2210F256 CPLD in the 256-pin fine-pitch BGA package
2.5-V core power
On-board ports
One HSMC expansion port
One GbE port
On-board memory
128- megabytes (MB) 16-bit DDR3 device
1-gigabytes (GB) 64-bit DDR2 SODIMM
2-MB SSRAM
64-MB flash
FPGA configuration circuitry
MAX II CPLD and flash fast passive parallel configuration
On-board USB-Blaster™ circuitry using the Quartus II Programmer
On-board clocking circuitry
Four on-board oscillators
100 MHz
Programmable oscillator, default frequency 125 MHz
Programmable oscillator, default frequency 100 MHz
155.52 MHz
SMA connectors for external LVPECL clock input
SMA connector for clock output
General user I/Os
Displays
Four user LEDs
Two-line character LCD display
One configuration-done LED
One HSMC interface transmit/receive LED (TX / RX)
Three PCI Express LEDs
Five Ethernet LEDs
Push-buttons
One user reset (CPU reset)
One MAX II CPLD reset
One load image (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
PCI Express edge connector power
On-board power measurement circuitry
Mechanical
PCI Express full-length standard-height (8.48” x 4.376”)
PCI Express chassis or bench-top operation
Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit CD-ROM
Design examples
Board Update Portal, featuring the Nios® II processor web server and remote system update
Board Test System
Complete documentation (see Table 2)
Altera's complete Design Suite (download from Altera Download Center)
Quartus II software, includes support for Arria II GX FPGAs
Includes one-year license
Nios II Embedded Design Suite
MegaCore® IP Library includes PCIe, Triple Speed Ethernet, SDI, and DDR3 High-Performance Controller intellectual property (IP) cores
IP evaluation available through OpenCore Plus
Power adaptor and cables
