Altera Delivers PCI-SIG Compliant x1 and x4 PCI Express Solution Supporting Arria GX FPGAs

Altera Delivers PCI-SIG Compliant x1 and x4 PCI Express Solution Supporting Arria GX FPGAs

Altera Corporation has announced that its low-cost Arria^TM GX FPGA Development Kit has passed PCI-SIG’s compliance tests on its first submission. Altera^®  Arria GX FPGAs, combined with Altera’s PCI Express x4 MegaCore^®  intellectual property (IP) function, are an integral part of the lowest-cost, PCI-SIG-compliant development kit in the industry.

Arria GX FPGA Development Kit Certified PCI-SIG Compliant

 The kit provides designers with an ideal platform for developing PCI Express (PCIe), Serial RapidIO^TM  (SRIO) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) solutions for communications, storage, computing, industrial, medical and consumer applications. Built on a PCIe form-factor card, the low-cost Arria GX FPGA Development Kit delivers a complete environment for developing and testing designs that implement high-speed serial interfaces in Arria GX FPGAs.

“In addition to passing the compliance tests on the first round, our strategy of using our robust and well-proven transceiver technology on low-cost Arria GX FPGAs delivered substantial performance margins,” said David Greenfield, senior director of product marketing for high-density FPGAs at Altera. “These performance improvements enabled significant reduction in the kit’s board layer counts to an unprecedented total of six layers, which directly reduces customers’ system costs.”