EBV Elektronik presented a new board in Nuremberg, the Cyclone IV GX development kit which is targeted at low-cost, high volume, transceiver applications. The board is described by the distributor, part of the Avnet group, as a logical continuation of the company's Snake-Bytes reference design. The board's number of I/O pins, together with possibilities for add-on boards and the use of user specific hardware, makes it adaptable for many applications. Designers can start developments on an evaluation board and produce the first measurement results on their own application environment. The board consists of Altera's Cyclone IV FPGA and components from National Semiconductor and Samsung. It can be used for Ethernet-based Fieldbus; medical; hardware in loop simulation and I/O expansion for PCIe motherboards.
