Altera^® Cyclone^® IV GX FPGA Development Kit provides a comprehensive, best-in-class design environment to quickly begin developing low-cost and low-power FPGA system-level designs. This kit helps to shorten your product’s development cycle so that you can meet your product’s time to market and production milestones. With this platform, you can:

• Develop and test PCI Express^® Gen1 x1, x2, x4 endpoint designs using the Cyclone IV GX PCI Express hard intellectual property (IP) and PCI-SIG^® -compliant board
• Develop and test multi-lane protocol bridging designs using on-board DDR2 memory and through its expansion capability, the high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors. There are over 30 different HSMCs available through Altera partners and supporting protocols such as CPRI, SATA, and SDI.
• Come up to speed quickly with your FPGA design by reusing the example designs provided by the kit's Board Test System.
• Use the kit´s host board as design model for your product’s low-cost and low-power board.

Featured device

• Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX150N FPGA in a F896 package

Configuration status and set-up elements

• Passive serial (PS) configuration via a MAX^® II EPM2210 CPLD and flash memory
• On-board USB-Blaster^TM download cable using Quartus^® II Programmer

Clocks

• On-board clock oscillators: 50 MHz, 100 MHz (programmable), and 125 MHz
• SMA connectors for external clock input
• SMA connectors for clock output

General user input and output

• LEDs
• LCD display
• Push button and dual in-line package (DIP) switches

Memory devices

• 128-megabytes (MB) DDR2 SDRAMs with a 32-bit data bus
• 64-MB sync flash and 4-MB SSRAM

Component and interfaces

• PCI Express edge connector
• 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector
• Two HSMC connectors
• Power measurement circuitry

Power

• Laptop DC input
• PCI Express edge connector power

Other features

• PCI Express short card form factor
• RoHS-compliant

Altera Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Board Block Diagram

▶ Layout

▶ Resources

Documents

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit User Guide (PDF)			2015-03-19
Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Board Reference Manual (PDF)			2015-03-19

CD-ROM

Title	Version	Size(KB)	Date Added	Download
Kit installation			2015-03-19

▶ Kit Contents

• Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit software content
  • Design examples
    • Board Update Portal featuring the Nios^® II processor web server and remote system update
    • Board Test System
  • Complete documentation
• Free Quartus II Web Edition Software includes support for Cyclone IV FPGAs and:
  • Nios II Embedded Design Suite
  • MegaCore^® IP Library includes PCI Express, Triple-Speed Ethernet, SDI, and DDR2 High-Performance Controller MegaCore IP cores
    • IP evaluation available through OpenCore Plus
• Loopback and debug HSMCs
• Power adapter and cables