Hsinchu, Taiwan – February 13, 2012 – Terasic Technologies launching its new TR4 high-density Altera Stratix IV FPGA platform. Coming in two flavors of Altera’s Stratix IV GX with 230K or 530K logic elements, the TR4 is tailored for flexibility with its high number of available I/O pins, high speed, and low-power. A stacking mechanism is featured, allowing engineers the ability to easily choose the number of logic elements required for the end design.
The TR4 enables stacking through multiple High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC) connector ports which feature back-side male connectors for connecting to other TR4 boards. In total, there are 492 free I/O pins as well as transceivers that support a data rate up to 8.5 Gbps. The number of ports allows engineers to match the TR4 board to exact specifications by using add-on cards from Terasic or custom solutions.
The TR4 includes two Gen.2 x4 PCIe connectors that allow high-speed communication with a host computer. For memory, a DDR3 SO-DIMM module is provided, as well as on-board flash memory and high-speed SSRAM. The TR4 also features an on-board USB Blaster for direct FPGA programming via USB.
For more information, check out www.tr4.terasic.com.
About Terasic Technologies
Specializing in a broad spectrum of FPGA development kit design and turnkey solutions, Terasic Technologies is the exclusive board manufacturer for Altera Corporation. For more information, please check out www.terasic.com.
