The Altera® Cyclone® V GT FPGA Development Kit can be used to prototype Cyclone V GT FPGA or Cyclone V GX FPGA applications. It offers a quick and simple way to develop low-cost and low-power FPGA system-level designs and achieve rapid results. This kit supports a myriad of functionalities such as:

•FPGA prototyping
•FPGA power measurement
•Transceiver I/O performance up to 5.0 Gbps
•PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen2 x4 (at 5.0 Gbps per lane)
•Endpoint or rootport support

FPGA Device

• Configuration and Debug
• Quad Serial Configuration device – EPCQ256 on FPGA
• On-Board USB Blaster (Normal Type-B USB connector)
• JTAG and AS mode configuration supported

Memory Device

• Communication
• Embedded USB-Blaster II (JTAG)
• Fast Passive Parallel (PFL)
• Altera EPCQ—EPCQ256SI16N (Quad Serial Configuration Device)

Standard communication ports

• PCIe x4 edge connector
• Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
• One SMA clock output
• Two universal high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors, each with four high-speed serial transciever channels
• One serial digital interface (SDI) channel —1 SMB for RX and 1 SMB for TX
• Channel shared with HSMA via resistor stuffing option

Push buttons, DIP switches, and LEDs

Clocking

• Programmable clock generator for FPGA reference clock input
• 125 MHz LVDS oscillator for FPGA reference clock input
• 148.5/148.35 MHz LVDS VCXO for FPGA reference clock input
• 50 MHz single-ended oscillator for FPGA and MAX  V CPLD clock input
• 100 MHz single-ended oscillator for MAX  V CPLD configuration clock input
• SMA input (LVPECL)

Power

• Laptop DC Input 14 – 20 V adapter
• PCIe edge connector

System monitoring circuit

• Power (Voltage, Current, Wattage)

Mechanical

• PCIe card standard size (4.376" x 6.600")

Block Diagram

Documents

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
Cyclone V GT FPGA Development Kit User Guide (PDF)	-		2013-01-08
Cyclone V GT FPGA Development Board Reference Manual (PDF)	-		2013-01-08

CD-ROM

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
Kit installation	-		2013-01-08

Please note that all the source codes are provided "as is". For further support or modification, please contactTerasic Support and your request will be transferred to Terasic Design Service.
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