Altera Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Board - Manual (Page 6)

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Board Component Blocks
Cyclone IV GX Transceiver Starter Board Reference Manual © March 2010 Altera Corporation
Board Component Blocks
The board features the following major component blocks:
■ Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX15BF14 FPGA in the 169-pin FineLine BGA (FBGA)
package
■ 14,400 LEs
■ 540-kilobit (Kb) on-die memory
■ 20 global clocks
■ 72 user I/Os
■ 3 phase locked loops (PLLs)
■ 1 PCI Express hard IP block
■ 1.2-V core power
■ MAX ® II EPM2210F256 CPLD in the 256-pin FBGA package
■ 2.5-V core power
■ MAX II EPM240M100 CPLD in the 100-pin Micro FBGA (MBGA) package
■ FPGA configuration circuitry
■ MAX II CPLD EPM2210 System Controller and flash passive serial (PS)
configuration
■ On-board USB-Blaster TM for use with the Quartus ® II Programmer
■ JTAG header for external USB-Blaster with the Quartus II Programmer
■ Erasable programmable configurable serial (EPCS) device
■ On-Board ports
■ USB 2.0
■ One gigabit Ethernet port
■ Transceiver interfaces
■ PCI Express x1 edge connector
■ 10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector
■ One optional TX/RX transceiver to SMA connectors (requires a minor
modification on the board)
■ On-Board memory
■ 18-megabit (Mb) Synchronous Static Random Access Memory (SSRAM)
■ 128-Mb flash
■ On-Board clocking circuitry
■ 6-MHz, 24-MHz, 25-MHz, and 50-MHz oscillators
■ 125-MHz LVDS oscillator
■ SMA clock input