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Reference Manual
Altera Corporation
Arria GX Development Board
October 2007
General Description
The Arria GX development board has the following main features:
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Arria GX EP1AGX60 chip in a 780-pin flip-chip FineLine BGA
®
(FBGA) package
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PCIe x4 interface
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An Altera High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC)
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32-MByte x 16 DDR2 SDRAM operating at 233 MHz
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Two user push-button switches (and one that is also used as a global
reset)
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Eight user LEDs
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One octal user DIP switch
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Re-programmability with dedicated circuitry to perform the
following Arria GX configuration schemes: fast passive parallel
(FPP), passive serial (PS), and compressed FPP
Board Component Blocks
The board features the following component blocks:
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780-pin Altera Arria GX EP1AGX60 FPGA
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60K logic elements (LEs)
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Eight transceiver channels
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128 18 X 18 multiplier blocks
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Four phase locked loops (PLLs)
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395 user
I/Os
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Transceiver interfaces
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x4 PCI Express edge connector
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One HSMC with four transceivers
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FPGA configuration circuitry
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JTAG interface
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MAX
®
II CPLD and 16-bit page mode flash memory
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Clocking circuitry
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The Arria GX development board uses three clock oscillators on
the transceivers and user logic to support all Arria GX device
protocols:
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62.5 MHz
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100.00 MHz
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125.00 MHz
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PCI Express clock input
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SMA connector for external clock input and output
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General user and configuration interfaces
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LEDs:
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Two LEDs indicating PCIe x1 or x4 mode
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One transmit and one receive (TX/RX) LED for the PCIe
transceiver interface
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One transmit and one receive (TX/RX) LED for the HSMC
transceiver interface