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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Arria GX Development Kit
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 30 October 2007
Development kit suits low-cost FPGAs
The Arria GX Development Kit delivers a robust environment for the development and testing of designs implementing high-speed serial interfaces.
Altera has released its first development kit for the Arria GX FPGA family of low-cost FPGAs with transceivers The Arria GX Development Kit delivers a robust environment for the development and testing of designs implementing high-speed serial interfaces such as PCI Express (PCIe), Serial RapidIO (SRIO) and Gigabit Ethernet (Gbe)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The kit helps designers achieve significant cost savings and a dramatic reduction in overall design time.
The development kit can be used by system designers as a starting point for their own designs.
"As the industry transitions from parallel to serial IO, engineers face new, unfamiliar technical risks in both board and FPGA design" according to Luanne Schirrmeister, Director of Marketing, Low-Cost Products at Altera.
"Our Arria GX FPGAs reduce the risk of making the transition and the development kit enables users to quickly verify their system in hardware".
The Arria GX Development Kit targets PCIe x1 and x4, SRIO and Gigabit Ethernet designs.
It includes a PCI Express form factor board featuring an Arria GX FPGA with 60K logic elements (LEs), 350 user I/O pins and eight transceiver channels.
"The combination of our high-performance, multi-DMA engine PCI Express platform with the Altera low-cost Arria GX device delivers an easy to use, robust solution", said Brian Daellenbach, President of Northwest Logic.
"Integrating with the Arria GX SERDES was a very quick and easy process".
"This solution enables designers to efficiently develop low-cost, high-performance PCI Express designs with minimal protocol knowledge".
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