Mini PCIE Enanched FPGA Board

When connected to an embedded PC motherboard, it adds FPGA programmable high bandwidth I/O and DSP capability at a low cost,

making it ideal for equipments in many fields of application, such as electromedical, automation, sonar, meteo radar, performances and errors rate analysis, video and data players and recorders.

The related development kits make available all that you need to develop both Fpga design under Altera QSYS and the application program using provided Microsoft Windows or Linux drivers.

The standard Mini PCIe form factor is ideal for many kinds of applications, it is present on many compact PC motherboards such as Intel Galileo and Advantech MIO-5250

The PCIEM-15-IO hosts an Altera Cyclone IV GX EP4CGX30BF14C6N FPGA and two I/O connectors that bring out 53 LVTTL compliant I/O FPGA pins and also 3 clocks signal that can be used to interface synchronous applications.

The FPGA has a PCI Express PCIe x1 GEN1 target interface, allowing the PC to take full advantage of the FPGA I/O pins. The I/O pins can also be controlled by a high performance DMA controller, able to transfer up to 250 Mbytes/Sec when used in full duplex.

Using the Altera QSYS tools, some pre-created structures supplied inside the Development Kit and the free Altera IP library, users will be able to build a complete custom FPGA system in few hours. The drivers inside the RDK, targetted on MS Windows and Linux OS, make available an Application Program Interface (API) able to read/write the I/O registers, handling interrupts, management of SGDMA in virtual memory. Demo and example programs are also available.