Altera was the first company to supply its customers with 28nm FPGA development kits and currently offers the broadest catalog of kits supporting all of Altera's low-cost, mid-range, and high-end 28nm FPGAs. Altera is currently the only company to offer 28nm FPGA production and 28nm development kits across its entire product family, providing customers with the fastest way to market for their 28nm-based systems.
Altera's 28nm development kit catalog significantly increases designer productivity by providing the necessary tools and resources for 28nm FPGA development and system integration. The 28nm development kits include FPGA boards, hardware and cables, as well as development software for accessing a wide variety of IP cores, reference designs, and documentation.
Low-Power, Low-Cost FPGA Development Kit for Cyclone V.
The Cyclone V GX FPGA Development Kit offers a fast and easy way to develop low-power, low-cost system-level designs for high-volume applications such as industrial networks, surveillance cameras, and in-car infotainment systems. The kit provides various functions, including FPGA prototyping, FPGA power measurement, and transceiver testing. The Cyclone V GX FPGA Development Kit also includes a PCIe® reference design that greatly reduces development time for PCIe-based systems.
Arria® V Midrange FPGA Development Kits.
Arria V FPGAs are designed to balance cost and performance while offering the lowest power consumption for broadcast, video, and communications infrastructure equipment applications. Altera offers three kits for Arria V FPGAs:
• The Arria V GX FPGA Starter Kit is a low-cost solution that allows customers to evaluate Arria V GX FPGA features, including PCIe hardware IP and memory controllers.
• The Arria V GX FPGA Development Kit is a feature-rich prototyping solution that includes all the hardware and software developers of 10G/40G line boards, HD video cameras, and videoconferencing equipment need to create complete 28nm FPGA designs and test them in a system environment.
The Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit is a modular development kit that includes Texas Instruments RF components along with all the necessary hardware and software for RF transmission and reception, as well as digital pre-distortion feedback. This complete RF development kit simplifies RF prototyping and reduces the time required to design and verify RF systems from months to weeks.
FPGA development kits
optimized to enable the development of systems that demand the highest levels of performance and bandwidth, such as optical transport networks and 100G designs. These high-level kits significantly shorten design times by enabling the development and testing of a wide variety of advanced system functions.
• A standard development kit for Stratix V GX provides a complete environment for immediately starting FPGA design development and allows for rapid evaluation of the Stratix V GX FPGA's core features, including transceivers and PCIe Gen3 support.
• For designs incorporating numerous transceivers, Altera offers the Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix V GX and Stratix V GT editions, which provides a platform for electrical compliance testing and interoperability analysis, as well as for evaluating the FPGA's advanced 10G Base KR and 28 Gbps transceivers in real-world environments.
• Altera offers the 100G Development Kit, Stratix V GX edition, complete with a CFP connector, enabling the evaluation of Interlaken technologies in OTN and enterprise 10G/40G/100G Ethernet applications.
• Designers who make intensive use of DSPs can take advantage of the Stratix V GS Edition DSP Development Kit, which is optimized for high-performance, variable-precision DSP applications.
• Altera’s recently announced Advanced System Development Kit incorporates advanced serial memory interfaces and maximum bandwidth via PCIe Gen3, as well as the power of a dual 28nm FPGA, to provide a complete high-performance system development environment for a wide variety of applications, from CMAP systems and remotely operated radios to data intelligence and financial transaction platforms.
