GX-AMC

Altera Stratix II GX AdvancedMC

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Board Architecture

FPGA

• Altera Stratix II GX (EP2S90/130) supported by BittWare’s ATLANTiS™ FrameWork
• Up to 19 full-duplex, high-performance, multi-gigabit SerDes transceivers
• Up to 132,540 equivalent LEs
• Over 6.7 Mbits of RAM
• Up to 63 DSP blocks
• Up to 252 embedded multipliers
8 PLLs

External Memory

• 2 banks of up to 512 MBytes DDR2 SDRAM configured as x32
• 64 MBytes of Flash memory for booting Stratix II GX and FINe

Fat Pipes Interface

• 8 ports (4 - 11) @ up to 3.125 GHz configurable to support PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, GigE and XAUI

Common Options Interface

• BittWare FINe™ Host/Control Bridge providing GigE on port 0
• Ports 1, 2 & 3 via ATLANTiS FrameWork, configurable to support PCI Express, Serial RapidIO, GigE, and XAUI*

Other AMC Edge Connections

• All AMC clocks brought to FPGA
• Module Management Control (MMC) Interface implementing IPMI for temperature monitoring and hot-swap support
• 8 ports providing 8 LVDS in and 8 LVDS out

AMC Front Panel I/O

• 10/100 Ethernet via FINe
• RS-232 port
• JTAG debug interface to the Stratix II GX †
• 4 SerDes @ up to 3.125 GHz (optional fiber adapter available)

BittWare I/O Module Interface

• Supports customizable front-panel I/O
• 76 LVDS pairs (38 in and 38 out)
• Clocks, I2C, JTAG, and DIO signals
• 4 SerDes @ up to 3.125 GHz

Size

• AMC mid-size, single width compatible with AMC specification R2.0

Development Tools

BittWorks Tools for 
Application Development

• BittWorks Toolkit - host, command, and debug tools for BittWare hardware
• BittWorks Porting Kit - source code and prebuilt ports for porting the BittWare Toolkit to other operating systems
• BWIO - software library for controlling I/O on BittWare boards

FPGA and DSP Code Development

• Altera Quartus® II software

Development Platforms

• MicroTCA Rapid Development Platform

Accessory Boards

• BittWare GXBO breakout board for front panel I/O access

* Only available on the EP2SGX130
† Requires GXBO breakout board