Stratix V Development board with QSFP ports

Hi Paul,

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but we don't know where to start.

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Start by reading about the transceiver toolkit and synthesizing a design using a Stratix V, eg., Altera's examples are here

http://www.altera.com/support/examples/on-chip-debugging/on-chip-debugging.html

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I don't have too much of knowledge of FPGAs but if anyone has knowledge of this or can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

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Since you are new to FPGAs ... Under no circumstance download a design to your board until you understand what pin constraints are. If you do, you can potentially damage your (expensive) board!

My recommendation would be to also buy a lower-cost DE0-nano or BeMicro-CV and use that to learn the fundamentals of FPGAs.

While you are learning about FPGAs, you can post questions to this forum to ask for clarification on questions you may have.

Your FPGA design sequence should be;

1. Understand what it takes to blink an LED

2. Understand what it takes to blink an LED using Qsys, a programmable I/O pin, and JTAG

http://www.alterawiki.com/wiki/using_the_usb-blaster_as_an_sopc/qsys_avalon-mm_master_tutorial

3. Understand what it takes to use the Transceiver Toolkit examples

I'm writing that tutorial now ... so hassle me when you want to read it :)

Cheers,

Dave