ZEM4310

FPGA Development Board with Intel Cyclone IV

	1 PC
ZEM4310 EP4CE55F23C8N, 128-MiB DDR2	$641.95
BRK4310 Breakout Board	$74.95
EVB1007 5 Mp CMOS image sensor board for HSMC	$249.95
PSS050-25 5V Power Supply	$24.95

The ZEM4310 is a USB 3.0 FPGA development board based on the Altera Cyclone IV FPGA. In addition to a high gate-count FPGA, the ZEM4310 utilizes the high transfer rate of USB 3.0 for configuration downloads, enabling speedy FPGA configuration and data transfer. With integrated SDRAM, power supplies, and platform flash, the ZEM4310 is in good company with our existing Xilinx modules.

FrontPanel™ SDK

Opal Kelly’s FrontPanel SDK is an easy-to-use, robust API for communication, configuration, and interfacing to your PC, Mac or Linux hardware. FrontPanel handles all the interaction between your software and the FPGA internals, dramatically reducing the time and effort required to interface to a design.

Prototyping and OEM Integration

Opal Kelly FPGA integration modules are designed to be the ideal turnkey solution for prototypes and OEM product integration. With the complete FrontPanel SDK, there’s simply no faster, more reliable, production-ready way to jump start your FPGA design.

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Features

SUPERSPEED USB 3.0

Measured performance at over 340 MiB/s for real-world data transfers to/from the PC.

BOOTABLE SERIAL FLASH (2x 16 MiB)

Integrates 16 MiB of on-board serial Flash for standalone FPGA booting and miscellaneous non-volatile memory and a separate 16 MiB serial Flash for exclusive FPGA use.

128 MiB DDR2

Integrated 128-MiByte DDR2 provides plenty of on-board memory for high-performance applications, including image capture and data acquisition.

SWITCHING POWER SUPPLIES

High-efficiency switching power supplies provide stable, dependable power to the FPGA. In most applications, there is enough extra juice to also supply your board.

Customer Deployments

Bioinformatics co-processors
Radar system - test interface, system integration, field testing
Camera interface for IR and LIDAR 3D cameras
Equipment for analyzing satellite imagery
University research
Design of equipment for mineral exploration

Applications

Image or video capture / processing
Data acquisition
ASIC / hardware-based simulation and verification
Bioinformatics (DNA search and pattern matching)
Digital communications
High-speed USB / FPGA co-processor
Evaluation platform for your product
Custom test equipment
Cryptography
Data Security

Technical Specifications and Support

Features & Specifications

Altera Cyclone IV FPGA (EP4CE55F23C8N)
2x 16-MiB serial flash (Numonyx N25Q128A)
128-MiByte DDR2 (Micron MT47H64M16HR)
Small form-factor -- smaller than a credit card at 80mm x 60mm x 15.98mm (3.15" x 2.36" x 0.63")
SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface (Cypress FX3) for configuration and data transfer
Measured performance over 340 MiB/s
Self-powered by external DC source
50 MHz clock oscillator
Two LEDs
Two HSMC-compatible 180-pin 0.5mm Samtec board-to-board connectors (QSH-090)
Over 160 user I/O and 4 GCLK pins on expansion connectors
Full FrontPanel virtual control panel support
Complete Application Programmer's Interface (API) in C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python, and Java