Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Board
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Part Number:
DK-K7-CONN-G
DK-K7-CONN-G-J
The Kintex™-7 FPGA Connectivity board is a 20Gb/s platform for high-bandwidth and high-performance applications containing all the necessary hardware, software and IP to power quickly through your evaluation and development of connectivity systems. This includes a 20Gb/s targeted reference design featuring PCI Express, a DMA IP core from Northwest Logic, 10GBase-R, AXI, and a Virtual FIFO memory controller interfacing to an external DDR3 memory. To control and monitor this design, the board includes a connectivity GUI built on Fedora Live OS which includes all the software drivers. Additionally, this board contains the relevant SFP+ FMC daughter card, cable and transceiver modules needed to utilize this design.
What's Included
- KC705 Evaluation Board featuring the XC7K325T-2FFG900C FPGA
- Connectivity targeted reference design
- Featuring PCI Express, a DMA IP core from Northwest Logic, 10GBase-R, AXI, and a Virtual FIFO memory controller interfacing to an external DDR3 memory
- Control & monitor GUI, Fedora 16 Live OS DVD, required software drivers and source code
- FMC daughter card featuring ganged SFP cages supporting up to 4x SFP+ modules
- Two 10Gb Ethernet transceiver modules and a single fiber optic patch cable
- Full seat Vivado™ Design Suite
- Device-locked to the Kintex-7 325T FPGA
- Printed Getting Started Guide specifically tailored to the connectivity board
- Contains all hardware and soft content also available in the KC705 base evaluation board
- Hardware such as cables and power supply
- Soft content including all reference designs, demos, board design files and documents to quickly get started with evaluation
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Key Features
- ROHS compliant KC705 kit including the XC7K325T-2FFG900C FPGA
- Onboard JTAG configuration circuitry to enable configuration over USB
- 128MB (1024Mb) Linear BPI Flash for PCIe® Configuration
- JTAG header provided for use with Xilinx download cables such as the Platform Cable USB II
- 16MB (128Mb) Quad SPI Flash
- 1GB DDR3 SODIMM 800MHz / 1600Mbps
- 128MB (1024Mb) Linear BPI Flash for PCIe Configuration
- 16MB (128Mb) Quad SPI Flash
- 8Kb IIC EEPROM
- SD Card Slot
- GigE Ethernet GMII, RGMII and SGMII
- SFP / SFP+ cage
- GTX port (TX, RX) with four SMA connectors
- UART To USB Bridge
- PCI Express x8 edge connector
- HDMI Video output
- External Phy/codec device driving an HDMI Connector
- 2x16 LCD display
- 8x LEDs
- FMC-HPC (Partial Population) connector (4 GTX Transceiver, 116 single-ended or 58 differential (34 LA & 24 HA) user defined signals)
- FMC-LPC connector (1 GTX Transceiver, 68 single-ended or 34 differential user defined signals)
- Vadj can support 1.8V, 2.5V, or 3.3V
- IIC
- Fixed Oscillator with differential 200MHz output
- Used as the “system” clock for the FPGA
- Programmable Oscillator with 156.250 MHz as the default output
- Default frequency targeted for Ethernet applications but oscillator is programmable for many end uses
- Differential SMA clock input
- Differential SMA GTX reference clock input
- Jitter attenuated clock
- Used to support CPRI/OBSAI applications that perform clock recovery from a user-supplied SFP/SFP+ module
- 5X Push Buttons
- 4X DIP Switches
- Diff Pair I/O (1 SMA pair)
- AMS FAN Header (2 I/O)
- 7 I/O pins available through LCD header
- 12V wall adapter or ATX
- Voltage and Current measurement capability of 2.5V, 1.5V, and 1.2V, 1.0V supplies (IIC path to FPGA)
- XADC header
SFP+ Daughter Card & Peripherals
Key Features
S14 FMC Daughter Card
- Ganged SFP+ cage on compact form factor FMC daughter card
- Supports up to four (4) SFP/SFP+ transceiver modules
- Two are included in this kit and used by the Kintex-7 Connectivity TRD
- Enables high-speed serial (fiber optic or copper) connections into MGT interfaces.
- Supports a wide range of SFP and SFP+ transceivers with signaling rates up to 10Gbps
Transceiver Modules (qty 2)
- 10Gb Ethernet transceiver modules compliant with the 10GBASE-SR standard
Optical Cable (qty 1)
- Multimode fiber optic patch cables combine scalable 10-Gig performance
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Xilinx offers a 90-day limited warranty on this product. See Limited Warranty for detailed information.
Vivado Design Suite: Design Edition (device-locked to Kintex-7 XC7K325T).
| Name | Description | Download |
|---|---|---|
| Vivado Design Suite | The Xilinx Vivado™ Design Suite is a revolutionary IP and System Centric design environment built from the ground up to accelerate the design for all programmable devices. | |
| ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition | The Embedded Edition of the ISE Design Suite includes all of the features and technologies found in the ISE Design Suite: Logic Edition plus the following additional Embedded Design components supporting both PLB and AXI-based systems. | |
| PCI Express DMA Back-End Core (NWL) | PCI Express DMA Back-End Core (NWL) | |
| Memory Interface Generator (MIG) | MIG is a free software tool used to generate memory controllers and interfaces for Xilinx FPGAs. |
Featured Design: Kintex-7 Connectivity Targeted Reference Design 
| Name | Description |
| Kintex-7 FPGA Connectivity Kit | Documentation and design files available for the Kintex-7 Connectivity Kit. |
The KC705 base board is used as the foundation for the Kintex-7 Connectivity Kit. Visit the Kintex-7 FPGA KC705 Base Evaluation Kit page for more information.
For additional resources, check out the Reference Design Portability Demo featuring the Kintex-7 KC705 and Virtex-7 VC707 Evaluation Kits.