Industry Pack FPGA Modules

Acromag’s Industry Pack FPGA modules provide a low-cost method to apply custom logic routines and signal processing algorithms to digital I/O signals.

Introducing PMC modules with Virtex-5 FPGA New modules feature PCI-X interface and plug-in analog and digital I/O cards. Learn more     NEW! IndustryPack modules with Cyclone-II FPGA User-configurable FPGA lets you develop custom I/O boards quickly and inexpensively. Learn more

Entry-level FPGA Computing
Acromag’s Industry Pack FPGA modules feature a user-customizable Altera® Cyclone®-II or Acex® 1K100 FPGA.
These modules allow users to develop and store their own instruction sets in the FPGA for a variety of adaptiver computing applications.

User application programs are downloaded through the JTAG port or via the IP bus directly into the FPGA. A pre-programmed internal CPLD facilitates initialization by acting as the bus controller during power-up and while the program is downloading. This bus controller is limited to functions necessary for power-up and downloading. After the program downloads, the FPGA takes control of the IP bus and the CPLD disables.

Typical Applications
Common FPGA applications include specialized communication systems over RS422/485 networks, test fixture simulation of signals over TTL-switched lines, and analysis of acquired data using advanced mathematical formulas such as those developed with MathWorks® MatLab® software.

Altera Cyclone-II FPGA
• 18,752 logic elements
• 239,616 distributed RAM bits
• 52 4Kb block RAMs
• 26 18 x18 embedded multipliers
• 4 digital PLL clock managers

Altera Acex EP1K100 FPGA
• 4,992 logic elements
• 49,152 RAM bits
• 12 embedded array blocks (EAB)

Engineering Design Kit
Acromag provides software utilities and examples to simplify your programming and get you started quickly.

I/O Capabilities
• Bi-directional TTL I/O
• Bi-directional RS485 differential I/O
• Combination TTL and differential I/O
• Bi-directional LVDS I/O

Video: "Custom Board Level FPGA Solutions Overview" (Flash video)

Article: "Right-Sizing FPGA Mezzanines Expands Application Space"
by Joseph Primeau, Acromag Dir of Mktg & Sales, as seen in RTC Magazine.

User-configurable FPGA solutions
Download your own application code into a powerful FPGA to perform custom signal processing functions.

Industry Pack FPGA Modules
Low-cost solutions with user-configurable Altera 1K100 and Cyclone-II FPGAs.

Block Diagram: IP-EP200