The Altera Cyclone IV GX FPGA Development Kit is a complete design environment that includes both the hardware and software you need to develop Cyclone IV GX FPGA designs.

Test signal quality of the FPGA transceiver I/Os (up to 3.125Gbps)
Develop embedded designs utilizing the Nios II processor and the SSRAM memory
High-speed mezzanine card (HSMC) connectors interface to over 30 different HSMCs
Supported protocols: Serial RapidIO, 10Gigabit Ethernet, SONET, Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI), Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) and others
Develop FPGA design for cost-sensitive applications and volume production
Measure the FPGA's low power consumption

USB cable, Ethernet cable, HSMC loopback board, HSMC debug breakout board, Quartus II software, MegaCore IP library & NIOS II Embedded Design Suite.

An FPGA is a semiconductor device consisting of a matrix of Configurable Logic Blocks (CLBs) connected through programmable interconnects. The user determines these interconnections by programming SRAM. A CLB can be simple (AND, OR gates, etc) or complex (a block of RAM). The FPGA allows changes to be made to a design even after the device is soldered into a PCB.