August 2015
Altera Corporation
Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Board
Reference Manual
1. Overview
This document describes the hardware features of the Cyclone
®
IV GX FPGA
development board, including the detailed pin-out and component reference
information required to create custom FPGA designs that interface with all
components of the board.
General Description
The Cyclone IV GX FPGA development board provides a hardware platform for
developing and prototyping low-power, high-volume, feature-rich designs as well as
to demonstrate the Cyclone IV GX device's on-chip memory, embedded multipliers,
and the Nios
®
II embedded soft processor. The board provides peripherals and
memory interfaces to facilitate the development of the Cyclone IV GX FPGA designs.
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For more information on the Cyclone IV device family, refer to the
Cyclone IV Device
Handbook
.
Board Component Blocks
The board features the following major component blocks:
■
Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX150DF31 FPGA in the 896-pin FineLine BGA (FBGA)
package
■
1.2-V core power
■
MAX
®
II EPM2210GF256 CPLD in the 256-pin FBGA package
■
1.8-V core power
■
FPGA configuration circuitry
■
MAX
II CPLD EPM2210 System Controller and flash fast passive parallel (FPP)
configuration
■
Active serial configuration
■
On-board USB-Blaster
TM
for use with the Quartus
®
II Programmer
■
JTAG header for external USB-Blaster with the Quartus II Programmer
■
On-Board ports
■
Embedded USB-Blaster
■
One gigabit Ethernet port
■
Communication ports
■
PCI Express (PCIe) edge connector
■
10/100/1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY with RJ-45 connector
■
Two High-Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC) interfaces