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The A5PL FPGA board provides a variety of interfaces for high-speed serial I/O as well as debug support. Two QSFP+ cages are available on the front panel, each supporting 40GigE or four 10GigE channels using optical transceivers as well as passive copper cabling up to 8 meters. The QSFP+ cages can optionally be adapted for SFP+.

The Gen3 x8 PCIe interface provides 8 SerDes lanes to the Arria V GZ FPGA. A USB 2.0 interface and an optional JTAG connector are available for debug and programming support.

• High performance Altera Arria V GZ FPGA
• PCIe x8 interface supporting Gen1, Gen2, or Gen3
• Dual QSFP+ cages for 2x 40GigE or 8x 10GigE
• Board Management Controller for Intelligent Platform Management
• USB 2.0 for programming and debug
• Timestamping and synchronisation support

FPGA

• Intel Arria® V GZ FPGA
• Up to 16 full-duplex, high-performance, multi-gigabit SerDes transceivers @ up to 12.5 GHz
• Up to 450K logic elements available
• Up to 34 Mb of embedded memory
• 1.6 Gbps LVDS performance
• Up to 2278 18×18 multipliers

On-Board Memory

• Flash memory for booting FPGA
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Optional SODIMM

• DDR3: x72 w/ECC - Up to 8 GB
• RLDRAM3: 2x banks of x18
• - 2x (32 M x 18): 128 MB
• - 2x (64 M x 18): 256 MB
• - 2x (128 M x 18): 512 MB
• QDRII+: 2x banks of x18 - 2x (8 M x 18): 36 MB
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PCIe Interface

• x8 Gen1, Gen2, Gen3 direct to FPGA
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USB Header

• USB 2.0 interface for debug and programming FPGA and Flash
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Timestamp and Synchronization (Optional)

• Tunable high-accuracy TCXO
• Programmable clock synthesizer (Si5338)
• 2 front panel SMA connectors*
  • 1 PPS input
  • Reference clock input
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QSFP+ Cages

• 2 QSFP+ cages on front panel connected to FPGA via 8 SerDes
• Each supports 40GigE or 4 10GigE
• Can be optionally adapted for use as SFP+
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Baseboard Management Controller

• Voltage, current, temperature monitoring
• Power sequencing and reset
• Field upgrades
• FPGA configuration and control
• Clock configuration
• I2C bus access
• USB 2.0 access
• Voltage overrides
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Size

• Half-height, half-length (low profile) PCIe slot card
• 168mm x 68.9mm
• Max. component height: 14.47mm