A Complete Development Environment
Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit
Quick Start Guide
What’s in the Box
• Hardware
The development kit includes the following hardware:
- Stratix V GX FPGA development board running on
Stratix V GX 5SGXEA7K2F40C2N FPGA
- DDR3, QDR II+, and RLDRAM II memory
- One HSMC connector supporting LVDS and single-ended I/Os
- One HSMC connector supporting DQS and single-ended I/Os
- 40G QSFP
- PCIe x8 edge connector
- Serial digital interface (SDI) channel
- Character LCD
- Debug and loopback HSMC boards
- AC adapter power cables
- Ethernet and USB cables
• Software
Download and install Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit
Installer to obtain the following items:
- Design examples
- Board Update Portal design
- Board Test System (BTS) design
- Documentation
- Stratix V GX FPGA Development Kit User Guide
- Stratix V GX FPGA Development Board Reference Manual
- Board design files
- Design software*
- Quartus II software (required)
- Nios
®
II processor (optional)
- MegaCore
®
intellectual property (IP) library (optional)
- ModelSim
®
-Altera software (optional)
Introduction
Altera’s Stratix®
V GX FPGA Development Kit,
which comes with a one-year license for Quartus
®
II software, provides all that you need to begin
developing high-performance designs.
You can use this development kit to:
• Develop and test PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 designs
using the PCI-SIG®-compliant development board.
• Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of
DDR3, RLDRAM II common I/O (CIO), or
QDR II+ memory.
• Develop modular and scalable designs by using
high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors to
interface to one of over 40 different HSMCs
provided by Altera
®
partners.
For a complete list of HSMC connectors available
for this development kit, refer to
www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-daughter_
*You can download the kit installer directly from
www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-sv-gx-host.html
. You can also order the Development Kit
installation DVD along with the Quartus II software DVD on the Documentation page (
www.altera.com/literature/lit-index.html
) of the Altera website.
