June 18, 2012 -- Altera Corp. and Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) have introduced a complete RF development kit that eases RF prototyping for systems based on Altera's 28-nm Arria V FPGAs. The modular Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit includes all the hardware and software needed for RF transmit, receive and digital pre-distortion feedback, reducing the amount of time needed to design and verify RF systems, such as wireless basestations, remote radio heads, and military radio and intelligence equipment.

The Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit provides RF developers with access to the latest generation of 28-nm FPGAs from Altera, along with the newest analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), digital-to-analog converters (DACs) and clocks from TI. The kit provides 2.5 times more transmit and digital pre-distortion feedback bandwidth than similar solutions and is the first complete main/ diversity receive development platform supporting up to 75MHz of bandwidth.

Features and benefits of the Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit

The Arria V FPGA RF Development Kit includes the Arria V FPGA Development Board and the following RF components from TI:

Availability and Pricing

The FPGA RF Development Kit can be ordered today from Arrow Electronics for $6,299.