Enables Rapid Adoption of Low-Cost, Low-Power Applications Requiring
Transceivers
Altera
Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR) today announced availability of the Arria®
II GX FPGA Development Kit. The kit features hardware and software
resources that enable customers to rapidly evaluate and adopt Arria
II GX devices, Altera's mid-range 40-nm FPGAs, for implementing a
wide 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 wide range of
development resources are available on Altera website, including free
PCIe training, PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and SDI-based reference
designs to help designers get up-to-speed quickly, and a database of
over 20 readily available mezzanine cards to address specific
application and market needs.
"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," said Luanne Schirrmeister, senior director of component
product marketing at Altera Corporation. "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 twelve
transceivers, a one-year license for 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 industry-leading innovations,
including up to sixteen 3.75-Gbps transceivers, 256K logic elements
(LEs) and 8.5 Mbits 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.
Pricing and Availability
The Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit is currently available and priced
at $1,495. To learn more about this kit, or to purchase it, visit www.altera.com/pr/products/devkits/altera/kit.
For more information on Arria II FPGAs, contact your local Altera sales
representative or visit www.altera.com/pr/arriaiigx.
About Altera
Altera programmable solutions enable system and semiconductor companies
to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate and win in their
markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA,
CPLD
and ASIC
devices at www.altera.com.
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Altera Corporation
Jim Adams, 408-544-6397
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