The Altera^® Stratix^® IV GX FPGA Development Kit deliver a complete system-level design environment that includes both the hardware and software needed to immediately begin developing FPGA designs. With a PCI-SIG^® -compliant board and a 1-year license for Quartus^® II design software, you can:

• Develop and test PCI Express^® 2.0 (up to x8 lane) endpoint and root port designs
• Develop and test memory subsystems consisting of DDR3 and QDR II+ memory
• Build designs capable of migrating to Altera's low-cost HardCopy^® IV ASICs
• Add other Stratix IV GX FPGA-supported protocol interfaces such as 10-Gbps Ethernet, CPRI, OBSAI, SAS/SATA, Serial RapidIO^® , and many others by taking advantage of the modular capability of these boards through the high-speed mezzanine connectors and over 30 different high-speed mezzanine cards (HSMCs) available.