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Build for Altera Agilex® FPGA and SoC Family

Delivering custom designs and services that get you to market faster

Accelerating innovation across the Agilex FPGA portfolio

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At Fidus, we have cultivated a strong relationship with Altera over the years, focusing on leveraging their latest technologies to solve complex design challenges. As a GOLD Tier Partner, we have extensive experience working with Altera’s product offerings, especially Agilex. Our team of FPGA experts has consistently delivered high-performance solutions, ensuring our clients achieve their market goals faster and more efficiently.

Agilex™ 7 F-Series SoC

    • Developed an industrial automated thermal test system for ICs.
    • Utilized RTOS for real-time system control requirements.
    • Selected Agilex 7 F-Series SoC for its high pin count to handle all peripheral interfaces.
    • Control board managed tasks such as commanding actuators, dispensing thermal paste, heating thermal heads, and communicating with robots.
    • Aggregated data and reported to a data logger, increasing throughput of the thermal tester.
    • Improved time to market (TTM) for the customer

Agilex™ 7 F-Series

  • Created a multi-channel channelizer block.
  • Involved model development, RTL development, filter design, verification, timing closure, and documentation.
  • Developed an 8-channel, super-sample rate digital down converter design using Agilex 7.
  • Matched customer’s model simulations and met timing/resource constraints.
  • Utilized tools such as Quartus, HDL Coder, MATLAB, Python, and NumPy.
  • Enabled customer to get their product to market faster and generate revenue quickly.

Agilex™ 7 I-Series SoC

  • Met the needs of high-speed networking hardware development.
  • Leveraged Agilex 7 I-Series SoC’s PCIe 5.0 x16 capability.
  • Implemented RTL development and embedded software within the Intel HPS environment.
  • Key components included HPS boot first sequence, U-Boot, and Linux.
  • Efficiently met high-performance requirements for the customer
  • Requirements definition
  • Intel® SoC device selection
  • Partitioning HPS and FPGA functions
  • Power system budgeting, design, and sequencing
  • BSP and driver design, U-Boot/Linux
  • GStreamer implementations and customization
  • HPS implementation and interfacing
  • Transceiver usage and implementation
  • Clocking
  • FPGA functional block design and HPS communication
  • Memory subsystem design and implementation
  • Signal and power integrity
  • High-speed (32Gbps+) PCB layout
  • Thermal assessment and solutions
  • Quartus® Prime, SoC EDS
  • Linux, U-Boot
  • DDR4 @ 2400Mbps
  • Boot Options (SecureDigital, QSPI, CFI, MMC, NAND)
  • USB
  • PCIe; Root and End Point
  • Storage; M.2, NVMe, SATA
  • Video encoding; H.264/H.265
  • Video Interfaces; HDMI4K, DisplayPort, SDI, MIPI
  • I2C, SPI, UART, Ethernet (100/1G/10G/100G)

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