Altera Transceiver Signal Integrity - Manual (Page 5)

December 2011 Altera Corporation Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit,
Stratix IV GX Edition User Guide
1. About This Kit
The Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix ® IV GX Edition provides
everything you need for the signal integrity evaluation and interoperability of
Stratix IV GX transceivers on the Altera
® Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230 device. The kit
includes a full-featured FPGA development board, hardware and software evaluation
tools, documentation, and accessories needed to begin development.
With this signal integrity development kit, you can do the following:
■ Evaluate transceiver performance at data rate ranging from 600 Mbps to 8.5 Gbps.
■ Generate and check pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) patterns through an
easy-to-use demonstration application.
■ Understand the effects of changing differential output voltage (V
OD
), preemphasis,
and equalization settings.
■ Perform jitter analysis.
■ Verify physical medium attachment (PMA) compliance to PCI Express (Gen 1 and
Gen 2), Serial RapidIO
® , gigabit Ethernet, 10 gigabit Ethernet XAUI, CEI-6G, high
definition serial digital interface (HD-SDI), Fibre Channel 1G/4G/8G, and other
major standards.
m For a demostration of this development kit, refer to the video Analyze FPGA
Transceiver Interoperability & Signal Integrity on the Webcasts and Videos page of the
Altera website.
Kit Features
This section briefly describes the following Stratix IV GX transceiver signal integrity
development kit features:
■ Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230 Signal Integrity Transceiver Development Board —a
development platform that allows you to develop and prototype hardware
designs running on the Stratix IV GX FPGA (ordering code: DK-SI-4SGX230N).
f For detailed information about board components and interfaces, refer to
the
Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix IV GX Edition
Reference Manual .