Virtex 6 FPGA Connectivity Kit

by: AMD

The Virtex™ 6 FPGA Connectivity Kit is a comprehensive high performance connectivity development, debug and demonstration platform for high-bandwidth and high-performance applications in multiple market segments.

Overview

Important Notice

This development kit has been discontinued and is no longer offered for sale. The solutions targeted for this product will not be updated moving forward with limited support available from AMD.

Product Description

The Virtex™ 6 FPGA Connectivity Kit is a comprehensive high performance connectivity development, debug and demonstration platform for high-bandwidth and high-performance applications in multiple market segments. The Virtex 6 FPGA Connectivity Kit delivers a fully validated and supported reference design that integrates built-in blocks for GTX transceivers and PCI Express, soft IP for XAUI protocol, a high-performance 10G DMA IP core from Northwest Logic, and a Virtual FIFO memory controller interfacing to an external DDR3 memory.

Jump-start your development with Targeted Reference Designs with support for the AXI4™ Interconnect Standard.


Key Features & Benefits

  • Hardware, design tools, IP, and pre-verified reference designs
  • FMC Daughter Card: 2 SMA ports for off-board GTX transceiver connectivity
  • Supports embedded processing with MicroBlaze, soft 32bit RISC
  • FMC Daughter Card: CX4 connectivity
  • FMC Daughter Card: 2 SATA connectivity ports
  • Enabling serial connectivity with PCIe Gen2x4, Gen1x8, 1 SFP,  1 SMA Pair, and UART
  • 10/100/1000 Tri-Speed Ethernet (RJ-45)
  • DDR3 SO-DIMM (512 MB)
  • Expand I/O with the FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) interface

Featured AMD Devices

Featuring the Virtex 6 XC6VLX240T-1FFG1156 FPGA

Logic Cells 241,152
Memory (Kb) 14,976
DSP Slices 3,650
Maximum Transceivers (GTX) 24
Max User I/O 720
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Product Information

Specifications

Board Features

Featuring the ML605 Evaluation Board

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What's Inside

What's Inside

ML605 Evaluation Board

Featuring the Virtex 6 LX240T FPGA

ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition

Device-locked to the Virtex 6 LX240T FPGA

X4 Loopback Adapter

USB Stick

Mini USB Cable

Ethernet Cable

Power Cord

Power Adapter

Sata Straight & Loopback Cable

DVI-VGA Adapter

Resources

Documentation
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Tools & IP

Intellectual Property

Name Description License Type
Memory Interface Generator (MIG) MIG is a free software tool used to generate memory controllers and interfaces for AMD FPGAs. No-Charge IP
Virtex 6 Integrated Block for PCI Express (PCIe) AMD provides a Virtex 6 FPGA Endpoint solutions for PCI Express® (PCIe) to configure the Virtex 6 FPGA Integrated Block for PCIe FPGA and includes additional logic to create a complete solution for PCIe. No-Charge IP
XAUI/DXAUI The AMD 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface (XAUI) LogiCORE™ IP provides a 4-lane high speed serial interface, providing up to 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) total throughput. No-Charge IP
Training & Support