Date: 27/07/2009

Arria II GX FPGA development kit with high-speed transceivers

Altera has made available new FPGA development kit for evaluating Arria II GX 40nm FPGAs. This kit is suggested for implementing complex processor-rich digital functions in communications, broadcast, computers and storage, test and measurement, medical electronics and military/defense applications.

The Arria II GX FPGA Development Kit comes with pre-verified IP components and supporting hardware reference designs such as 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.

"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 packs development board with 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.