At the SPS/IPC/Drives trade show Kontron introduced the new COM Express starter kit featuring the Altera Cyclone IV GX FPGA. It provides all the required components to evaluate board designs with open-definable I/Os. With this Kontron COM Express FPGA Starterkit OEM developers can get an immediate start in the development of FPGA-based, dedicated applications, thus reducing the overall R&D costs and time to market for their purpose-built platforms.
For developers looking to build an application that relies on I/O unique to the application, the Kontron COM Express FPGA Starterkit is the right tool to optimize overall development. The components of the starter kit are assembled in minutes allowing the user to move directly to programming on the platform that consists of the selected Computer-on-Module and the individual High Speed Mezzanine Cards (HSMC) to carry out the physical interfaces. OEMs can use the Starterkit to develop dedicated full-custom SBC designs or individual custom carrierboards for scalable x86 based COMs, both with I/Os integrated in Altera’s transceiver-based FPGA, Cyclone IV GX.
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