Marvin Test Solutions Inc. GX3700 3U PXI High-Performance FPGA Board
- User configurable, on-board Altera Stratix III FPGA
- No proprietary FPGA design tools required
- Compatible with Altera's free, web-based Quartus II design tools
- 160 digital I/O signals available for user specific applications
- 700 MHz digital I/O clock rate
- Supports user defined expansion boards for custom interfaces
The GX3700 is a user configurable, FPGA-based, 3U PXI card which offers 160 digital I/O signals which can be configured for single-ended or differential interfaces. The card employs the Altera Stratix III FPGA, which can support SerDes data rates up to 1.2 Gb/s, digital I/O clock rates of 700 MHz, and features over 45,000 logic elements and 1.836 Kb of memory. The GX3700 is supplied with an integral expansion board providing access to the FPGA¿s 160 I/Os. Alternatively, users can design their own custom expansion cards for specific applications - eliminating the need for additional external boards which are cumbersome and physically difficult to integrate into a test system. The design of the FPGA is done by using Altera¿s free Quartus II Web Edition tool set. Once the user has compiled the FPGA design, the configuration file can be loaded into the FPGA directly or via an on-board EEPROM.