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Altera Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit

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

Layout

Documents

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
Reference manual			2013-01-09

CD-ROM

Kit installation

2013-01-09

The Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Kit design examples and documentation can be downloaded from Resources. Included are the following:

Design examples
- Board Update Portal featuring the Nios^® II processor and remote system update
- Board Test System (BTS)
Complete documentation
- User guide
- Reference manual
- Board schematic and layout
- Bill of material

Quartus II software is required in order to create designs for the Cyclone IV GX device on this board. Cyclone IV GX devices are supported by both the subscription edition and the "no license required" web edition software, which can be downloaded by following this link . The following tools are included:

Quartus II Software Web Edition (Windows only)
- MegaCore^® IP Library including PCI Express, Triple Speed Ethernet, and the Nios II processor MegaCore function (IP evaluation available through OpenCore Plus)
ModelSim^® -Altera Starter Edition
Nios II Embedded Design Suite