allanvv
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I'm looking for a cheap Altera dev board with DDR RAM and an LVDS compatible connector. However, it seems like the cheapest one is the $1000 "Cyclone III FPGA Development Kit".
I initially thought that the $200 "Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit" would work since it has HSMC, but the manual states that it is only intended for CMOS signals and has no provisions for differential pairs.
So does there exist a board that meets my requirements that is less than $500? I know Xilinx does (the Digilent Atlys, which has great specs), but I'd like to develop for the Cyclone 3/4 because they support DDR DIMM's while the Spartans do not. If there doesn't exist such a dev board, it seems to me like there's a huge gap in their line-up.
What I want to do is make a daughtercard board for an 11-bit ADC, at 200MHz DDR. I need twelve LVDS pairs. Perhaps I could just try using the starter kit board and see if the non-differential pair routing will still work, but I don't want to just toss $200 away either.
I initially thought that the $200 "Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit" would work since it has HSMC, but the manual states that it is only intended for CMOS signals and has no provisions for differential pairs.
So does there exist a board that meets my requirements that is less than $500? I know Xilinx does (the Digilent Atlys, which has great specs), but I'd like to develop for the Cyclone 3/4 because they support DDR DIMM's while the Spartans do not. If there doesn't exist such a dev board, it seems to me like there's a huge gap in their line-up.
What I want to do is make a daughtercard board for an 11-bit ADC, at 200MHz DDR. I need twelve LVDS pairs. Perhaps I could just try using the starter kit board and see if the non-differential pair routing will still work, but I don't want to just toss $200 away either.
