SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera Corporation
(NASDAQ: ALTR) today reached another milestone in driving the
industry's rollout of 28-nm FPGAs by announcing availability
of the Stratix® V GX FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit, the
first development kit featuring 28-nm FPGAs. This full-featured kit
allows design engineers to accelerate the design and
development of high-performance systems that meet the industry's
demand for more bandwidth. The Stratix V GX FPGA Signal Integrity
Development Kit provides customers a platform for measuring and
evaluating transceiver link performance ranging from 600 Mbps to
12.5 Gbps.
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The Stratix V GX FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit features
advanced equalization functions for the device's high-speed serial
transceivers. Customers can perform real-world system analysis
using on-board SMA and popular backplane connectors including
Molex® Impact® and Amphenol® XCede®. These built in high-speed
backplane connectors are used to evaluate custom backplane
performance and evaluate link BER. Users can also generate and
check pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) patterns via an easy to
use graphical user interface.
"To meet the ever increasing data rates and bandwidth
requirements of today's high-end communications systems, it's
essential for SERDES providers to invest in signal and power
integrity in their silicon," said Dr. Eric
Bogatin, Signal Integrity Evangelist with Bogatin
Enterprises, a LeCroy Company. "Altera's Stratix V Transceiver
Signal Integrity Development Kit provides an ideal vehicle to
evaluate transceiver performance for customer applications and
accelerate the development time for new designs."
The Stratix V FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit allows users
to verify compliance with the most popular protocol standards
today, including 10GbE, 10GBASE-KR, PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen1, Gen2
and Gen3, Serial RapidIO®, Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), 10 GbE XAUI,
CEI-6G, CEI-11G, HD-SDI, Interlaken and Fiber Channel. The
development kit features a Stratix V GX FPGA-based development
board, a one-year license of Quartus® II Software, design examples
and access to Altera's MegaCore® IP library including the Nios® II
Embedded Design Suite.
Pricing and Availability
The Stratix V GX FPGA Signal Integrity Development Kit is
available now and priced at $4,995.
To learn more about this kit, or to purchase, visit
www.altera.com/s5sikit. For more information on Stratix V FPGAs,
contact your local Altera sales representative or visit
www.altera.com/pr/stratix5.
About Altera
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companies to rapidly and cost-effectively innovate, differentiate
and win in their markets. Find out more about Altera's FPGA, CPLD
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Altera Corporation
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