Altera releases Arria II GX FPGA development kit
Altera
Arria II GX FPGA development kit
Altera has announced the availability of the Arria II GX FPGA development kit.
The kit features hardware and software resources that enable customers to evaluate and adopt Arria II GX devices, Altera's mid-range 40nm FPGAs, for implementing a range of high-performance digital functions in communications, broadcast, computer and storage, test and measurement, medical and military applications.
The Arria II GX FPGA development kit reduces development time by providing a complete system of pre-verified components and supporting hardware reference designs.
For example, the development kit offers an entire PCI Express (PCIe) Gen1 end-point design package, featuring a PCI-SIG-compliant Arria II GX FPGA-based development board with an embedded PCIe Gen1 hard intellectual-property (IP) core.
A range of development resources are available on the Altera website, including free PCIe training, PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and SDI-based reference designs to help designers get up to speed quickly, as well as a database of more than 20 readily available mezzanine cards to address specific application and market needs.
Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of component product marketing at Altera Corporation, said: 'The Arria II GX development kit allows customers to rapidly evaluate Arria II GX FPGAs and quickly move their product designs from concept to reality.
'This development kit offers a range of high-performance features that will enable Arria II GX customers to create custom hardware-based product differentiation in a broad range of applications.' The Arria II GX FPGA development kit comes complete with a development board featuring an Arria II GX (EP2AGX125EF35) FPGA with 12 transceivers, a one-year licence for the Quartus II design software (Development Kit Edition) and access to Altera's Megacore IP library including the Nios II embedded design suite.
Arria II GX FPGAs provide customers with up to 16 3.75Gbps transceivers, 256K logic elements (LEs) and 8.5Mb of internal RAM.
Arria II GX devices are targeted for applications using mainstream transceiver protocols, including PCIe, GbE, triple-speed SDI, CPRI, GPON and XAUI.
The Arria II GX FPGA development kit is currently available and is priced at USD1,495 (GBP910).
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