Altera Arria GX Development Board User Manual

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Altera Corporation

Reference Manual

2–3

October 2007

Arria GX Development Board

Board Components

Table 2–1

describes the components and lists their corresponding board

references.

Table 2–1. Board Components & Interfaces (Part 1 of 2)

Board

Reference

Name

Description

Featured Device

U7

Arria GX FPGA

EP1AGX60D FPGA in a 780-pin flip-chip FineLine BGA®
(FBGA) package.

Configuration Status and Setup Elements

S6

Board configuration
DIP switch

DIP switch that controls the FPGA and MAX II device
configuration settings.

D19 and D20

PCIe mode LEDs

Yellow LEDs that display PCIe x1 or x4 mode.

D2

Configuration done LED

Green LED that displays configuration status.

D12 and D13

Channel activity LEDs

Yellow LEDs that indicate the RX and TX activity on HSMC
Port A.

D11

Power LED

Blue LED indicates when power is applied to the board.

D21, D22, D23

Voltage present LEDs

Green LEDs that indicate the presence of 1.5 V, 2.5 V, and
1.2 V power.

S5

Configuration push button

Push button to reconfigure the Arria GX device.

SW2, SW3

JTAG chain bypass
switches

Switches to include or exclude HSMC Port A and MAX II from
the JTAG chain.

D1

HSMC present LED

Green LED indicates when an HSMC card is connected.

J6

JTAG header

10-pin header for JTAG-based FPGA communication.

Clocks

X1

100 MHz

100-MHz oscillator

X2

125 MHz

125-MHz oscillator

X3

62.5 MHz

62.5-MHz oscillator

J4

SMA clock input

SMA connector that allows the provision of an external clock.

General User Input/Output

S1, S2, S4

User push-button switches

User-defined push-button switches.

D3-D10

User LEDs

Eight user-defined LEDs.

S3

User DIP switch

User-defined DIP switches.

Memory Devices

U8

DDR2 SDRAM

32 M x16 of DDR2 SDRAM

U6

Flash

512 Mbits of flash memory

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