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Altera High-Speed Development Kit, Stratix GX Edition User Manual

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Altera Corporation

Quartus II Version 3.0

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Before You Begin

Software Requirements

Figure 2–1. Stratix GX Reference Designs & Software Directory Structure

Altera provides archived Quartus II projects for the designs included in
the kit. Before compiling an archived project, you must restore it. To
restore and compile, perform the following steps:

1.

Choose Restore Archived Project (Project menu).

2.

In the Archive name box, type the path and file name of the
Quartus II Archive File (.qar) you wish to restore, or select a QAR
File with Browse (...).

3.

In the Destination folder box, type or select the path of the folder
into which you wish to restore the contents of the QAR File, or select
a folder with Browse (...).

4.

Click Show log to view the Quartus II Archive Log File (.qarlog) for
the project you are restoring from the QAR File.

5.

Click OK.

6.

Compile the project.

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path>\Stratix_GX_kit

Demonstrations
Contains the files for the demonstrations provided with the kit.

SPI4
Contains a device programming file that demonstrates Stratix GX SPI-4.2 interoperability with
the Intel IXF1110 and PMC-Sierra S/UNI-10xGE 10-port Gigabit Ethernet MAC devices.

10GBEthernet
This demonstration application implements a 10-Gigabit Ethernet MAC connected to the
Stratix GX embedded SERDES device, providing an XAUI connection to an optional
Xenpak/XPAK optical transceiver module.

Supporting_docs
Contains the board schematics, layout files, layout guidelines, and documentation in Adobe PDF.

Test_designs
Contains the test designs described in the kit user guide.

Standard_test_designs
Contains the archived standard test designs.

Standard_sofs
Contains the SRAM Object Files (.sof) for the standard test designs.

Nios_tests_designs
Contains the archived Nios-based test designs.

Nios_sofs
Contains SOFs for the Nios test designs and run files.

Preloaded_test_files
Contains Programmer Object Files (.pof) for the preloaded test designs.