Stratix® V GX Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit

The Stratix® V GX Transceiver Signal Integrity (SI) Development Kit provides a platform for electrical compliance testing and interoperability analysis. The accessibility to multiple channels allows for real-world analysis as implemented in the system with transceiver channels available through SMA and popular backplane connectors.

You can use this development kit to:

  • Evaluate transceiver link performance from 600 Mbps to 12.5 Gbps.
  • Generate and check pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) patterns via a simple to use GUI (does not require the Quartus® Prime software).
  • Access advanced equalization to fine tune link settings for optimal bit error ratio (BER).
  • Perform jitter analysis.
  • Verify physical medium attachment (PMA) compliance to 10GbE, 10GBASE-KR, PCI Express (PCIe) (1.0, 2.0, and 3.0), Serial RapidIO, Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet XAUI, Common Electrical I/O (CEI) 6G, CEI-11G, high-definition serial digital interface (HD-SDI), Interlaken, and other major standards.
  • Use the built-in high speed backplane connectors to evaluate custom backplane performance and evaluate link BER.

Table 1. Ordering Information

Ordering Code

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 Device

DK-SI-5SGXEA7N

Mouser

DigiKey

 5SGXEA7N2F40C2N
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Table 2. Development Kit Contents and Features

What is included

Device

5SGXEA7N2F40C2N

Features and Connectors

High speed serial interfaces

  • Seven full-duplex transceiver channels routed to SMA connectors
  • Short trace routed on a micro-strip
  • Six strip-line channels with all the trace lengths are matched across channels

21 full-duplex transceiver channels routed to backplane connector

  • Seven channels to Molex* Impact* connector
  • Seven channels to Amphenol* XCedee*
  • Seven channels to footprint of Tyco Strada* Whisper* (connector is not populated)

Clocks

  • 50 MHz, 125 MHz, programmable oscillators (preset values: 624 MHz, 644.5 MHz, 706.25 MHz, and 875 MHz)
  • SMA connectors for supplying an external differential clock to transceiver reference clock
  • SMA connectors for supplying an external differential clock to the FPGA fabric
  • SMA connectors to output a differential clock from the FPGA's phase-locked loop (PLL) output pin

General user input/output

10-/100-/1000-Mbps Ethernet PHY (RGMII) with RJ-45 (copper) connector

16x2 character LCD

One 8-postion dipswitch

Eight user LEDs

Four user pushbuttons

Memory

128-megabyte (MB) sync flash memory (primarily to store FPGA configurations)

Cables and Adapters

Laptop DC input

Voltage margining

Software 

A one-year license for the Quartus® Prime Pro Edition design software is included with the purchase of the kit. Refer to the Software Installation and Licensing for more information.
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Table 3. Documentation

Document Description Version
Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix® V GX Edition User Guide (PDF) Information about setting up the Stratix® V GX transceiver SI board and using the included software. 11.0.2
Transceiver Signal Integrity Development Kit, Stratix® V GX Edition Reference Manual (PDF) Detailed information about board components and interfaces. 11.0.2
Kit Installation (for Boards with ES Silicon) Full installation of all files included in the development kit, including the reference manual, user guide, quick start guide, BOM, layout, PCB, schematics, SI demonstration, Board Update Portal example file, and so on. This installation is for ES Boards only. 11.0.2
Kit Installation (for Boards with ES Silicon) Full installation of all files included in the development kit, including the reference manual, user guide, quick start guide, BOM, layout, PCB, schematics, SI demonstration, Board Update Portal example file, and so on. This installation is for ES Boards only. 11.1.0
Kit Installation (for Boards with ES Silicon) Full installation of all files included in the development kit, including the reference manual, user guide, quick start guide, BOM, layout, PCB, schematics, SI demonstration, Board Update Portal example file, and so on. This installation is for ES Boards only. 11.1.2
Kit Installation Full installation of all files included in the development kit, including the reference manual, user guide, quick start guide, BOM, layout, PCB, schematics, SI demonstration, Board Update Portal example file, and so on.
 12.0
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