The IRIS S3 Compute board is based on advanced technology, 65nm STARTIX III FPGA from ALTERA corp. The board contains 2 Stratix III EP3SL340 FPGA and one Stratix II EP2GX90 FPGA. The board provides a total of 770,000 LEs to work with. The board can be used Stand Alone or in a System with a PCI Express x8 slot that takes in long boards. For stand alone and stacked use an, ATX power connector is provided.  The Board also comes with 4 GB of DDRII SODIMMs.  The board in addition has 4 HSMC connectors providing a maximum board to board bandwidth of 256 Gbps.

The board works with standard tools flows from ALTERA such as the Quartus II software. The Quartus II software provides single integrated design environment for synthesis, simulation (using Modelsim), place and route and programming. The NIOS II eclipse based IDE and the SOPC builder provide a powerful platform for embedded development.  The stratix III devices on the board can be converted into HARDCOPY strctured ASICs. The options for the board are:

• S3 Card with 1 Stratix II GX90 FPGA, 2 Stratix III EP3SL340 FPGA

• PCI Express 1.0/2.0 PIPE design that provides 20 to 40 Gbps of full duplex BW

• Windows Driver or LINUX driver that can also recognize multiple cards

• Simple MATLAB interface for the cards (API with open, close, read, write)

• test code.

• Altera Quartus II

• Simple Test design

• Additional purchase of support for 1 year with on-site visits

• USB blaster programming cable

With the purchase of two or more cards interconnect cables can be purcahsed including PCI Express extenders for stand alone use.