Virtex-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit

Product Details

• Broadcast Connectivity Kit FAQ (PDF)
• Product Brief (PDF)

Documentation

• Virtex-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit Documentation
• ML605 Documentation
• Real Time Video Engine Lounge
• Virtex-6 FPGA LX240T CES Errata

Device Family Support

• Virtex-6 LXT

Quickly evaluate and integrate SD/HD/3G-SDI, AES3 Audio and other interfaces into next-generation broadcast designs. The Virtex®-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit integrates the high performance of the Virtex-6 FPGA family, IP building blocks, design tools, reference designs, and a serial digital/audio development board. Developed specifically to address the rapidly evolving requirements in the broadcast market for greater bandwidth, improved jitter performance and lower power consumption, the Virtex-6 FPGA Broadcast Connectivity Kit includes a serial digital audio and video connectivity FPGA mezzanine card (FMC).

Real Time Video Engine Reference Design now available for download. Request access now!

What's Included

Boards

• ROHS compliant ML605 base board featuring a Virtex-6 LX240T FPGA
• Broadcast connectivity FMC daughter card from Cook Technologies
  • 4 channel SD/HD/3G-SDI Tx and Rx
  • 2 stereo channel AES3 Tx and Rx
  • Single stereo channel AES10 Tx and Rx
  • Genlock input and clock cleaner modules (2)

Tools

• ISE® Design Suite Embedded Edition - Device-locked

Reference Designs and Demos

• Real Time Video Engine Reference Design -- real-time video processing chain including scaler, de-interlacer, color space conversion, chroma resampler, and noise reduction IP cores
• Triple rate SDI (SD/HD/3G-SDI) – Pre-validated reference designs for transmit, receive and pass through
• Base reference design interface and demonstration
• Board diagnostic demonstration
• PCI® Express Gen2 (x4) test design
• PCI Express Gen1 (x8) test design
• DDR3 memory interface design
• ChipScope Pro serial IO toolkit IBERT transceiver test design
• Multi-boot reference design - Featuring fail safe

Cables/Power Supply

• USB cables(2)
• BNC-BNC coaxial cables (4)
• DVI-VGA adapter 
• Ethernet cable
• Universal 12V power supply – Wall adaptor or ATX
• Voltage and current measurement capability of 2.5V, 1.5V, and 1.2V, 1.0V supplies

Documentation

• Hardware setup and user guides
• Reference Design user guides
• Schematics and PCB files

Other

• USB Flash Drive - All reference designs,demos and documents are delivered on a USB stick

Xilinx offers a 90-day limited warranty on this product. See Limited Warranty for detailed information.