Altera High-Speed Development Kit, Stratix GX Edition - Manual (Page 12)

1–2 Quartus II Version 3.0 Altera Corporation
July 2003
Features High-Speed Development Kit, Stratix GX Edition User Guide
The development kit includes the following items:
■ Stratix GX Development Board—The development board has a variety
of connectors from the Stratix GX device to external sources that you
can use for a wide array of applications, including Gigabit Ethernet,
10 Gigabit Ethernet, OC-12/STM-4 and OC-48/STM-16
SONET/SDH, Fibre Channel (1 and 2 Gbps), System Packet Interface
– Level 4 Phase 2 (SPI-4.2) (also known as POS-PHY Level 4), PCI
Express, 8-bit RapidIO, and 1x/4x Serial RapidIO. You can use a
Nios
® embedded processor to control the application, or you can
access an external processor via the PCI mezzanine card (PMC)
interface.
■ Board Design Files—The kit includes a complete package of schematic
and layout design files along with a viewer tool, which you can use
as reference to accelerate PCB design using the Stratix GX device.
■ Design Examples—The kit includes design examples that illustrate the
use of Stratix GX transceivers. You can use these design examples as
a reference when implementing your proprietary backplane
interface, accelerating the design, verification, and prototyping cycle.
■ Demonstrations—The kit includes two device programming files that
demonstrate a 10 Gigabit Ethernet MAC with a 10 Gigabit
attachment unit interface (XAUI) and a SPI-4.2 interface connected to
a 10-port multi-physical layer (PHY) device.
■ Loopback Connectors—The kit includes 2 cards with reciprocal source-
synchronous connectors wired for external loopback mode and 1
card for XCVR loopback. Additionally, the kit includes 4 loopback
cards for the SFP connectors.
■ Cables—The kit includes 4 SMA cables that you can use to connect to
an external oscilloscope or use for loopback testing of quad-channel
transceiver interfaces such as XAUI.
Features ■ Supports a wide array of applications, including:
● Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
● 1 and 2 Gbps Fibre Channel
● OC-12/STM-4 and OC-48/STM-16 SONET/SDH
● SPI-4.2
● SDI
● PCI Express
● 8-bit RapidIO and 1x/4x Serial RapidIO
● PCI
● Proprietary backplane