Arria GX FPGA Kit Certified PCI-SIG Compliant

Altera has announced that its Arria 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 PCI-SIG-compliant development kit.

The kit provides designers with a platform for developing PCI Express (PCIe), Serial RapidIO (SRIO) and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) solutions for communications, storage, computing, industrial, medical and consumer applications.

"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 Louie Leung, marketing director 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. Through these achievements, we've reinforced our commitment to providing customers with the lowest-risk, lowest-cost, FPGA-based system solutions for PCI Express x1 and x4, Serial RapidIO, and Gigabit Ethernet designs."

Arria GX FPGAs are optimised to support PCIe, GbE and SRIO standards up to 2.5 Gbps.