The Stratix^® V GX FPGA Development Kit provides a complete design environment that includes all the hardware and software you need to begin developing FPGA designs immediately. You can use this development kit to do the following:

• Develop and test PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) designs at data rates up to Gen3 using the PCIe short card form factor-compliant development board
• Develop and test memory subsystems for DDR3, QDR II+, or RLDRAM II memories
• Use the high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors to interface to one of over 35 different HSMCs provided by partners, supporting protocols, such as Serial RapidIO^®, 10 Gbps Ethernet, SONET, CPRI, OBSAI, and others

Development Kit Contents

The Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit features the following:

• Stratix V GX FPGA development board (see Figure 1)
  • Featured device:
    • Stratix V GX FPGA: 5SGXEA7K2F40C2N
  • Configuration, status, and setup elements
    • JTAG
    • On-board USB-Blaster^TM II cable
    • Fast passive parallel (FPP) configuration via MAX^® V device and flash memory
    • One reset config push button
    • One CPU reset push button
    • Two configuration push buttons
  • Clocks
    • 50 MHz, 125 MHz, 100 MHz, and 148.5 MHz programmable oscillators
    • SMA input (LVPECL)
  • General user input and output
    • 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet PHY (SGMII) with RJ-45 (copper) connector
    • 16x2 character LCD
    • One 8-position dual in-line package (DIP) switch
    • Sixteen user LEDs
    • Three user push buttons
  • Memory devices
    • DDR3 SDRAM (1,152 MB, x72 bit wide)
    • QDR II+ SRAM (4.5 MB, 2 Mb x18 bit wide)
      • Footprint compatible to QDR II 4 Mb x18 bit wide
    • RLDRAM II (72 MB CIO RLDRAM II with an 18 bit data bus)
  • Component and interfaces
    • PCIe x8 edge connector
    • Two HSMC connectors
    • SMB for serial digital interface (SDI) input and output
    • QSFP optical cage
    • 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet PHY (SGMII) with RJ-45 (copper) connector
  • Power
    • Laptop DC input
    • PCIe edge connector
    • Nios^® II processor web server and remote system update
  • Loopback and debug HSMC cards
  • Power adapter and cables
  • Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit software content
    • Complete documentation
      • User guide
      • Reference manual
      • Board schematics and layout design files
    • GUI-based Board Test System
      • Includes complete Quartus software projects with open source RTL
    • Board Update Portal
      • Includes complete Quartus software projects with open source RTL
    • Quartus Prime design software, Development Kit Edition (DKE)
      • License to use full version of Quartus Prime design software for one year