The board features the following major component blocks:

FPGA Devices

Stratix IV GX EP4SGX230

• 228,000 logic elements (LEs)
• 17,133K total memory Kbits
• 1,288 18x18-bit multipliers blocks
• 2 PCI Express hard IP blocks
• 744 user I/Os
• 8 phase locked loops (PLLs)

Stratix IV GX EP4SGX530

• 531,200 logic elements (LEs)
• 27,376K total memory Kbits
• 1,024 18x18-bit multipliers blocks
• 4 PCI Express hard IP Blocks
• 744 user I/Os
• 8 phase locked loops (PLLs)

FPGA Configuration

• JTAG and Fast Passive Parallel (FPP) configuration
• On-board USB Blaster

Memory Devices

• 64 MB Flash with a 16-bit data bus
• 2 MB ZBT SSRAM
• I2C EEPROM

Two DDR2 SO-DIMM Sockets

• 400 MHz clock rate
• Maximum theoretical bandwidth of over 102 Gbps
• Up to 8-Gbyte capacity in total

SD Card Socket

• Provides SPI and 4-bit SD mode for SD Card access

Buttons, Switches and LEDs

• 4 push-buttons
• 4 slide switches
• 8 LEDs
• 8-position DIP switch

Two Seven Segments

• Two independent seven segments

On-Board Clocks

• 3 Programmable PLLs configured via FPGA
• o HSMA, HSMB transceiver clock source
• o SATA reference clock
• o FPGA LVDS clock input
• 50MHz/100MHz oscillator

SMA Connectors

• 2 SMA connector for external transceiver clock input
• 4 SMA connector for LVDS clock input/output
• 2 SMA connectors for clock output
• 1 SMA connector for external clock input

Four Serial ATA Ports

• Support SATA 3.0 standard 6Gbps signaling rate
• Two host and two device ports

Four Gigabit Ethernet Ports

• Integrated 1.25 GHz SERDES

PCI Express x8 Edge Connector

• Support connection speed of Gen1 at 2.5Gbps/lane to Gen2 at 5.0Gbps/lane
• Connection established with PC motherboard with x8 or x16 PCI Express slot

Two 172-pins High Speed Mezzanine Card (HSMC)

• 2 female-HSMC connectors
• I/O voltage 2.5V
• Total of 12 high-speed transceivers at 8.5 Gbps
• Total of 38 LVDS pair at 1.6 Gbps

Two 40-pin Expansion Headers

• 72 FPGA I/O pins, as well as 4 power and ground lines, are brought out to two 40-pin expansion connectors
• 40-pin header is designed to accept a standard 40-pin ribbon cable used for IDE hard drives
• I/O voltage 3.0V

USB Host/Slave Controller

• Complies fully with Universal Serial Bus Specification Rev. 2.0
• Support data transfer at high-speed, full-speed, and low-speed
• Support both USB host and device
• Three USB ports (one type mini-AB for host/device and two type A for host)
• Support Programmed I/O (PIO) and Direct Memory Access (DMA)

Power

• DC input 12V and 3.3V
• PCI Express edge connector power
• Support PCI Express external standard power source
• On-Board power measurement circuitry

 

Block Diagram

　　 Connect  MTL

• Connect  MTL with  DE4

  

　　 Connect D5M

• Connect D5M with  DE4

　　 Connect LTM

• Connect LTM with  DE4

 

　　 Connect DVI-HSMC

• Connect DVI-HSMC with  DE4
  Note. Two adapters (THCB-HMF2) required to connect DVI-HSMC with DE4. They are bundled in DE4 kit.

　　 Connect SFP-HSMC

• Connect SFP-HSMC with  DE4

　　 Connect SDI-HSMC

• Connect SDI-HSMC with  DE4

　　 Connect ADA-HSMC

• Connect ADA-HSMC with  DE4
  Note. One adapters (THCB-HMF2) required to connect ADA-HSMC with DE4. They are bundled in DE4 kit.

　　 Connect DCC-HSMC

• Connect DCC-HSMC with  DE4
  Note. Two adapters (THCB-HMF2) required to connect DCC-HSMC with DE4. They are bundled in DE4 kit.

　　 Connect HTG

• Connect HTG with  DE4
  Note. One adapters (THCB-HMF2) required to connect HTG with DE4. They are bundled in DE4 kit.  
   

　　 Connect   COMM

• Connect  COMM with  DE4
  Note. One adapters (THCB-HMF2) required to connect COMM-HSMC with DE4. They are bundled in DE4 kit.     
   

 

　　 Connect MSV

• Connect  MSV with  DE4
  Note. One adapters (THCB-HMF2) required to connect MSV-HSMC with DE4. They are bundled in DE4 kit.