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13 years ago

What Altera Dev board should I get?

I am looking to implement an embedded system which is going to control and orchestrate a whole bunch of fast switches on/off etc. Main requirements are that I need to talk to the board via seri...
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13 years ago

That same AD/DA interface board is compatible with multiple Altera/TERASIC boards.

The Cyclone III dev board is a good board, and works well of this application. To Reach 150 MSPS you will have to really optimize your design for timing however.

Some of the boards it's compatible with are listed here:

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=73&no=360&partno=2#section

There's also a Cyclone V board in the pipe that looks really interesting.

called the Cyclone V GX FPGA Dev Kit Board

I'm under NDA so I can't go into any details, but if you schedule allows for a bit of a wait for the board, I would contact your Altera Rep about it. (I learned about it through Arrow)

I would highly recommend it, if you want to push 200+ MSPS.

We're working on a design that we were evaluating a 205 MSPS system, and Cyclone III/Cyclone IV struggled at this rate, but Cyclone V could handle it. (at least with the timing models in the beta version of Quartus 12).

Pete