The Altera® Stratix® V GX Transceiver Signal Integrity (SI) Development Kit provides a platform for electrical compliance testing and interoperability analysis. The accessibility to multiple channels allows for real-world analysis as implemented in the system with transceiver channels available through SMA and popular backplane connectors. You can use this development kit to perform the following tasks:

• Evaluate transceiver link performance from 600 Mbps to 12.5 Gbps
• Generate and check pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) patterns via a simple to use GUI (does not require the Quartus® II software)
• Access advanced equalization to fine tune link settings for optimal bit error ratio (BER)
• Perform jitter analysis
• Verify physical medium attachment (PMA) compliance to 10GbE, 10GBASE-KR, PCI Express® (PCIe®)(Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3), Serial RapidIO®, Gigabit Ethernet, 10-Gigabit Ethernet XAUI, Common Electrical I/O (CEI) 6G, CEI-11G, high-definition serial digital interface (HD-SDI), Interlaken, and other major standards
• Use the built-in high speed backplane connectors to evaluate custom backplane performance and evaluate link BER