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Altera Stratix IV E FPGA Development Board User Manual

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Chapter 2: Board Components

Components and Interfaces

Stratix IV E FPGA Development Board Reference Manual

May 2011

Altera Corporation

The HSMC connector has a total of 172 pins, including 120 signal pins, 39 power pins,
and 13 ground pins. The ground pins are located between the two rows of signal and
power pins, acting both as a shield and a reference. The HSMC host connector is
based on the 0.5 mm-pitch QSH/QTH family of high-speed, board-to-board
connectors from Samtec. There are three banks in this connector. Bank 1 has every
third pin removed as done in the QSH-DP/QTH-DP series. Bank 2 and bank 3 have
all the pins populated as done in the QSH/QTH series.

Figure 2–8

shows the bank arrangement of signals with respect to the Samtec

connector's three banks.

The HSMC interface has programmable bi-directional I/O pins that can be used as
2.5-V LVCMOS, which is 3.3-V LVTTL-compatible. These pins can also be used as
various differential I/O standards including, but not limited to, LVDS, mini-LVDS,
and RSDS with up to 17 full-duplex channels.

1

As noted in the

High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC) Specification

manual, LVDS and

single-ended I/O standards are only guaranteed to function when mixed according to
either the generic single-ended pin-out or generic differential pin-out.

Table 2–40

lists the HSMC port A interface pin assignments, signal names, and

functions.

Figure 2–8. HSMC Signal and Bank Diagram

Bank 3

Power

D(79.40)

-or-

LVDS

CLKIN2, CLKOUT2

Bank 2

Power

D(39:0)

-or-

D[3:0] + LVDS

CLKIN1, CLKOUT1

Bank 1

8 TX Channels CDR

8 RX Channels CDR

JTAG

SMB

CLKIN0, CLKOUT0

Table 2–40. HSMC Port A Pin Assignments, Schematic Signal Names, and Functions (Part 1 of 5)

Board

Reference

Description

Schematic Signal

Name

I/O Standard

Stratix IV E

Device

Pin Number

Other

Connections

J19.1

Transceiver TX bit 7

NC

1.4-V PCML

J19.2

Transceiver RX bit 7

J19.3

Transceiver TX bit 7n

J19.4

Transceiver RX bit 7n

J19.5

Transceiver TX bit 6

J19.6

Transceiver RX bit 6