New Stratix IV E Development Kit Accelerates 533-MHz DDR3-DIMM Designs

The Stratix IV E FPGA Development Kit

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• Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of DDR3-DIMM, QDR II+, and RLDRAM II memory interfaces
• Prototype designs and speed up your verification cycle and time to market
• Build designs capable of migrating to Altera’s low-cost HardCopy® IV E ASICs
• Migrate designs seamlessly from Altera’s Stratix III F1152 FPGAs
• Take advantage of the modular and scalable design of this development kit by using high-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors to interface to one of over 20 different HSMCs provided by Altera partners

The kit includes:

• Development board featuring a Stratix IV E EP4SE530H35C2NES FPGA
• Board test system with design examples
• 2-GB DDR3 SDRAM DIMM with a 72-bit data bus
• 72-Mb QDR II+ SRAM device with a 18-bit data bus
• 576-Mb RLDRAM II CIO device with a 36-bit data bus
• Altera Complete Design Suite DVD
• 1-year license for Quartus II Software Development Kit Edition—includes support for Stratix IV FPGAs and HardCopy IV ASICs
• Nios® II Embedded Design Suite
• MegaCore® IP Library, which includes Triple-Speed Ethernet, DDR3, RLDRAM II, and QDR II+ MegaCore intellectual property (IP) cores
• Design examples

Learn more:

• Get complete kit details and documentation
• Stratix IV FPGA density
• Literature for Stratix IV FPGAs
• Design Guidelines for Stratix IV FPGAs (PDF)
• Partner HSMC connectors
• Other Stratix IV FPGA-based development kits