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RC250
Desktop platform for rapid application prototyping
The RC250 is a desktop environment designed for the evaluation and development of high performance/ high throughput SOPC applications using FPGA logic or combined with Nios II soft processors.
Focus design effort on core application content
Comprehensive board support libraries for low-level peripheral interfacing and control
Maximise design reuse
Access board features using the PAL portable API
Simplify co-processor applications development
Rapid integration of Nios II with DSM
Rapid design starts
- Full examples and project templates
- USB Board configuration and control utilities (MSWindows 2000/XP)
Market applications include:
- Robotics and Industrial Vision systems
- Video data manipulation
- Network data manipulation
To better enable the use of the board for these types of applications, the RC250 provides an Altera Stratix II FPGA with 9M gates, fabricated in a 90nm process and incorporating TriMatrix Memory and high bandwidth DSP blocks which also offers a path to ASIC using the HardCopy-II structured ASIC technology. To support the capabilities of the Stratix-II, it is directly interfaced to 4 banks of ZBT SRAM (totaling 16Mbytes) and 64Mbytes of DRAM.
RC250 Block Diagram
High performance video applications are supported by the analogue and digital video inputs & outputs. The RC250 is supported by PixelStreams V2.0 to provide ultra-rapid prototyping and development of streaming video applications.
Having dual Gigabit Ethernet MAC/PHYs and 10/100/1000baseT sockets provides capability for data streaming, data distribution and high performance network applications.
As well as high-speed Ethernet, the board also offers a USB 2.0 connection for high-speed bit file download and for host to FPGA application communications. To assist with debug, application status reporting and user interaction, the board has 8 user-programmable LEDs and 4 seven segment displays.
To complete the capabilities the board has Audio in/out, including SPDIF digital out, PS2 keyboard and mouse connectors and an RS232 port.
Benefits
- High performance FPGA for manipulation of high-speed Video and data streams
- Large memory capability for buffering and storage
- High-speed bit file loading and RC250 / Host integration through USB and dual Gigabit Ethernet
- Easy integration of NIOS II softcore and C-based hardware code
Key Features
- Large Altera Stratix II FPGA EP2S90 device
- Memory
- 4banks x 1M x 36bit ZBT SSRAM (16Mbytes total)
- 1 bank x 16M x 32bit SDRAM
- Video sub-system
- Composite video in
- S-Video in/out
- VGA out
- DVI in/out
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet
- AC97 compatible audio
- USB interface