S4-AMC

Altera® Stratix® IV GX Reconfigurable AMC

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Board Architecture

FPGA

• Altera® Stratix® IV GX FPGA (4SGX230/530)
• Supported by BittWare’s ATLANTiS™ FrameWork
• 24 full-duplex, high-performance, multi-gigabit SerDes transceivers @ 6.25 GHz
• 3 full-duplex, multi-gigabit SerDes transceivers @ 3.125 GHz
• Over 530k equivalent LEs
• Over 20 Mbits of RAM
• Over 1,024 embedded multipliers

External Memory


• Two banks of up to 1 GByte DDR3 SDRAM configured as x32
• Two banks of up to 9 MBytes QDRII+ SRAM configured as x18
• 64 MBytes of Flash memory for booting FPGA and FINe

Fat Pipes Interface

• 12 ports (4 - 11, 20 - 17) @ up to 6.25 GHz via ATLANTiS™ FrameWork, configurable to support PCI Express (Rev 1.0/2.0), Serial RapidIO (Rev 1.0/2.0), GigE, 10GigE/XAUI
• 4 ports (12 - 15) of LVDS I/O (4 In, 4 Out)

Common Options Interface

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

Other AMC Edge Connections

• All AMC clocks brought to ATLANTiS
• Module Management Control (MMC) Interface implementing IPMI for temperature monitoring and hot-swap support
• Connectorless footprint for Agilent / Tektronix logic analyzers

AMC Front Panel I/O

• 4x SerDes via Infiniband-type connector
10/100 Ethernet to FINe
• RS-232 port to Stratix IV GX
• RS-232 port to FINe
• JTAG debug interface to the Stratix IV GX

VITA 57 FMC Site

• VITA 57-compliant
• 8x high-performance SerDes to FPGA
• 60 LVDS pairs to FPGA
• 6 clocks to FPGA

Size

• AMC mid-size or full-size, single width format compatible with AMC.0 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