The Altera^® Stratix^® V GT Transceiver Signal Integrity (SI) Development Kit provides a platform for electrical compliance testing and interoperability analysis. The accessibility to multiple channels allows for real-world analysis as implemented in the system with transceiver channels available through SMA and popular backplane connectors. You can use this development kit to perform the following tasks:

• Evaluate transceiver link performance up to 28 Gbps
• Generate and check pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) patterns via a simple to use GUI (does not require the Quartus^® II software)
• Access advanced equalization to fine tune link settings for optimal bit error ratio (BER)
• Perform jitter analysis
• Verify physical media attachment (PMA) interoperability with Stratix V GT FPGAs for targeted protocols, such as CEI-25/28G, CEI-11G, PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) Gen 3.0, 10GBASE-KR, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI, CEI-6G, Serial RapidIO^® , HD-SDI, and others
• Use the built-in high speed backplane connectors to evaluate custom backplane performance and evaluate link BER

  Featured device

  • 5SGTMC7K3F40C2N

  Configuration status and set-up elements

  • JTAG
  • On-board USB-Blaster^TM
  • Fast passive parallel (FPP) configuration via MAX^® II device and flash memory
  • Two configuration file storage
  • Temperature measurement circuitry (die and ambient temperature)

  Clocks

  • 50 MHz, 125 MHz, programmable oscillators (preset values: 624 MHz, 644.5 MHz, 706.25 MHz, and 875 MHz)
  • SMA connectors for supplying an external differential clock to transceiver reference clock
  • SMA connectors for supplying an external differential clock to the FPGA fabric
  • SMA connectors to output a differential clock from the FPGA's phase-locked loop (PLL) output pin

  General user input/output

  • 10-/100-/1000-Mbps Ethernet PHY (RGMII) with RJ-45 (copper) connector
  • 16x2 character LCD
  • One 8-postion dipswitch
  • Eight user LEDs
  • Four user pushbuttons

  Memory devices

  • 128-megabyte (MB) sync flash memory (primarily to store FPGA configurations)

  High speed serial interfaces

  • Four full-duplex GTB (28.05 Gbps) transceiver channels routed to MMPX connectors
  • Seven full-duplex GXB (12.5 Gbps) transceiver channels routed to SMA connectors
    • Short trace routed on a micro-strip
    • Six strip-line channels from the with all the trace lengths are matched across channels
  • 21 full-duplex GXB transceiver channels routed to backplane connector
    • Seven channels to Molex^® Impact^® connector
    • Seven channels to Amphenol^® XCede^®
    • Seven channels to footprint of Tyco Strada^® Whisper^® (connector is not populated)

  Power

  • Laptop DC input
  • Voltage margining

  Stratix V GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Board Block Diagram