New global agreement to distribute out-of-the-box development kits

Mouser has announced a global distribution agreement with ReFLEX CES. Through the agreement, Mouser is stocking the company’s Attilla, Alaric, and Achilles Arria 10 Instant Development Kits. All IDKs are complete, out-of-the-box solutions that combine a compact hardware platform with an efficient and intuitive software environment.   The company’s portfolio of Arria 10 IDKs, now available from Mouser Electronics, are high-performance kits that provide all the hardware, software design tools, and pre-verified test designs necessary to develop solutions based on Intel Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs.   The IDK, based on the Intel Arria 10 FPGA GX, is designed for high-performance serial transceiver applications. The IDK comes equipped with an advanced memory interface with DDR4 SODIMM memory up to 16GBytes, extension IOs, an on-board programmable PLL oscillator, and an eight-lane PCIe. Network communications are developed using an RJ45 copper connector with 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet (through the RGMII PHY).   The Alaric IDK is based on Intel’s SoC FPGA technology, which integrates a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor subsystem into a user-customizable FPGA that leverages a high-bandwidth interconnect. Also designed for high-performance serial transceiver applications, this IDK comes equipped with an advanced memory interface with DDR3 on-board memory up to 4GBytes, a display output port for video and an eight-lane PCIe.   The Achilles IDK also features a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore, as well as up to 660,000 advanced low-power FPGA logic elements, combining the flexibility and ease of programming a CPU with the configurability and parallel processing power of an FPGA. The kit is comprised of the Arria 10 SoC SoM plus a starter board for quick prototyping and application testing. This IDK offers superior signal integrity, and provides support for multi-Gigabit serial protocols including PCIe Gen3 and 10G Ethernet. Target applications for the IDKs include video capture and processing devices, industrial products, test and measurement equipment, and medical devices.