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Agilex™ 9 Direct RF-Series Medium-Band Development Kit

Altera

The Agilex™ 9 SoC FPGA Direct RF-Series AGRM027 Development Kit is designed for developers building next-generation RF systems with 100 MHz to 7.125 GHz frequency range in domains such as 5G Military Comms, 6G Wireless Prototyping, Quantum Computing, radar, electronic warfare, and high-speed instrumentation. Featuring Altera’s Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series Medium-Band SoC FPGA, this kit enables direct RF sampling with high-speed ADCs and DACs, advanced clocking, and multi-channel synchronization. It’s ideal for evaluating signal chain performance, prototyping real-time DSP algorithms, and validating system-level integration.

With support for up to 16 channels of 12 GSPS DACs and 20 channels of 4 GSPS ADCs, the kit allows users to explore wide instantaneous bandwidths—up to 2400 MHz for transmit and 2000 MHz for receive paths. The RF signal paths includes digital step attenuators, automatic gain control, and level detection circuits, enabling fine level contr...

The Agilex™ 9 SoC FPGA Direct RF-Series AGRM027 Development Kit is designed for developers building next-generation RF systems with 100 MHz to 7.125 GHz frequency range in domains such as 5G Military Comms, 6G Wireless Prototyping, Quantum Computing, radar, electronic warfare, and high-speed instrumentation. Featuring Altera’s Agilex 9 Direct RF-Series Medium-Band SoC FPGA, this kit enables direct RF sampling with high-speed ADCs and DACs, advanced clocking, and multi-channel synchronization. It’s ideal for evaluating signal chain performance, prototyping real-time DSP algorithms, and validating system-level integration.

With support for up to 16 channels of 12 GSPS DACs and 20 channels of 4 GSPS ADCs, the kit allows users to explore wide instantaneous bandwidths—up to 2400 MHz for transmit and 2000 MHz for receive paths. The RF signal paths includes digital step attenuators, automatic gain control, and level detection circuits, enabling fine level control and protection. Dual DDCs/DUCs per RF port and dual NCOs per DDC/DUC support fast frequency hopping and TDD operation. Combined with flexible clocking options and multi-device synchronization, the Agilex™ 9 SoC FPGA Direct RF-Series AGRM027 Development Kit provides a complete platform for evaluating RF performance in complex, high-throughput environments.

Key Features

  • RF frequency range: 100 MHz to 7.125 GHz
  • DAC: 16 channels of up to 12 GSPS (interleaved), 9 GSPS (non-interleaved)
  • ADC: 20 channels of up to 4 GSPS
  • IBW: Tx up to 2400 MHz, Rx up to 2000 MHz
  • TDD support with fast Tx/Rx switching
  • Dual DDCs/DUCs per RF port and dual NCOs per DDC/DUC
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Offering Brief

Offering Brief

Device Family Agilex® 9 FPGAs and SoC FPGAs Direct RF-Series
Offering Status Production
Device OPN(s) on Board AGRM027R31D2I2V
Form Factor Table Top
Power 12V, 24A Supply Included
Interfaces 3x MCIO slots for PCIe Gen4 x4
2x QSFP56 ports (200GigE)
1x QSFPDD port (400GigE or dual 200GigE)
2x SFP+ ports (10GigE)
1x Gigabit Ethernet port to FPGA IO
USB Blaster and JTAG header for debug
HPS IO slot supporting HPS daughter card
Memory 8GB DDR4; 4GB HPS DDR4; 256 MB QSPI Flash
Connectors MCIO; QSFP; SFP+; Gb Ethernet
Switches & LEDs Push buttons, status LEDs and DIP Switches for User Input

4 balun cards supporting 16 DACs, 16 ADCs, and 4 feedback ADCs

Clock daughter card with configurable sample clock output from 250MHz to 12GHz

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