Altera's Cyclone^® IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit provides a low-cost platform for developing transceiver I/O-based FPGA designs. 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/O pins (up to 2.5 Gbps)
• Develop and test PCI Express^® (PCIe^® ) 1.0 endpoint x1 lane designs (~250 MBps transfer rate)

Featured device

• Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX15BF14C8N FPGA

Configuration status and set-up elements

• MAX^® II CPLD EPM2210 System Controller enabling passive serial (PS) configuration from flash
• Embedded USB-Blaster™ for using the Quartus II Programmer
• JTAG header for external USB-Blaster
• Altera serial configuration device

Clocks

• FPGA clock sources: 50 MHz, 125 MHz, and SMA clock input
• Other on-board oscillators: 6 MHz, 24 MHz, and 25 MHz

General user input/output

• LEDs
• Two-line character LCD display
• Push-buttons

Memory devices

• 16 MB of flash memory
• 2 MB of synchronous SRAM

Component and interfaces

• PCIe edge connector
• 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector or one transceiver to SMA connectors (requires a minor board modification)
• On-board power measurement circuitry

Power

• Laptop DC input
• PCIe edge connector
• Power management solution from Linear Technology
  • Power regulators: LT3027 and LT3023
  • Step-down switching regulator: LT3510
  • ADC: LTC2418

Other features

• PCIe low-profile (6.6" x 2.713") board form factor
• Restriction of hazardeous substances (RoHS) compliance

Altera Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit Block Diagram

No	产品名称	售价(RMB)
1.	[C4GX] Altera Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit 产品编号: T0056  重量: 3,500g	￥3,555

Documents

标题	版本	档案大小(KB)	新增日期	下载
Reference manual			2015-03-19

CD-ROM

标题	版本	档案大小(KB)	新增日期	下载
Kit installation			2015-03-19