AGILITY 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.
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