Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit
Accelerate Your Designs - Right Out of the Box
Product Details
Documentation
- Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit Documentation
- Virtex-6 Connectivity Kit Release Notes
- Spartan-6 & Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit FAQ (PDF)
- Targeted Reference Designs Accelerate Implementation Times for Connectivity White Paper (PDF)
Device Family Support
- Virtex-6 LXT
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.
Download the version for the Virtex-6 FPGA Family.
What's Included
Boards - ROHS compliant ML605 Base Board including the XC6VLX240T-1FFG1156 CES FPGA
- Vita57.1 FMC daughter card with one CX4, two SATA, and eight SMA connectors
Tools & IP - ISE Design Suite: Embedded Edition (Device-locked to the Virtex-6 LX240T FPGA)
Targeted Reference Design(s) and Demo(s) - Design includes support for PCI Express® (x8 Gen1 / x4 Gen2), DMA, Virtual FIFO Memory controller supporting DDR3 interface, and XAUI interface
- TRD Design Files including top-level RTL / Source files
- TRD ISE Project files, Simulation and Implementation Environment
- 10G DMA Design – Northwest Logic PCIe Packet DMA IP (Evaluation hardware timeout version and Simulation Model)
- TRD Interface Software – Linux Device Drivers, Application, Demonstration
Example Design(s) and Demo(s) - Board Diagnostic Demo
- ChipScope Pro Serial IO Toolkit IBERT Transceiver Test Design
Documentation - Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit Hardware Setup Guide
- Virtex-6 FPGA Connectivity Kit Getting Started
- Virtex-6 FPGA Targeted Reference Design User Guide
- Example Designs User Guide
- Schematics and PCB files
Cables & Adapters - Universal 12V power supply
- Two USB cables
- One Ethernet cable
- One DVI-VGA adapter – standard interface for video display
- One CX4 loopback adapter
- One SATA straight and loopback cable
Additional Materials - All reference designs including TRD files, demos, and documents are delivered on a USB stick
- Fedora 10 Live CD - Linux Operating System
Key Features
- FPGA: XC6VLX240T-1FFG1156
- Serial Connectivity:
- PCI Express x8 Edge Connector
- SFP transceiver connector (SFP module not included)
- On board SMA: 1 SMA port (Tx & Rx) for off-board GTX transceiver connectivity
- FMC Daughter Card: CX4 connectivity
- FMC Daughter Card: 2 SATA connectivity ports
- FMC Daughter Card: 2 SMA ports for off-board GTX transceiver connectivity
- Parallel Connectivity:
- 10/100/1000 Tri-Speed Ethernet (RJ-45)
- USB To UART Bridge
- USB Host Port and USB Peripheral Port
- Memory
- DDR3 SO-DIMM (512 MB)
- BPI Linear Flash (32 MB) (Also available for configuration)
- IIC EEPROM (8 Kb)
- Additional Connectivity:
- FMC Expansion Port: Low Pin Count (LPC)
- One GTX Transceiver
- 68 SelectIOs
- User GPIO with two SMA connectors
- FMC Expansion Port: Low Pin Count (LPC)
- Device Configuration:
- Onboard configuration circuitry (USB to JTAG)
- 16MB Platform Flash XL
- 32MB Parallel (BPI) Flash
- System ACE CF with 2GB Compact FLASH (CF) Card
- Clocking
- 200 MHz Oscillator (Differential)
- 66 MHz Socketed Oscillator (Single-Ended)
- SMA Connectors for external clock (Differential)
- GTX Reference Clock port with 2 SMA connectors
- Display & Controls:
- 16x2 LCD character display
- DVI Output
- System Monitor
- User Push buttons (5), DIP switches (8), LEDs (13)
- User GPIO with two SMA connectors
- Power
- 12V wall adapter or ATX
- Voltage and Current measurement capability of 2.5V, 1.5V, and 1.2V, 1.0V supplies
Xilinx offers a 90-day limited warranty on this product. See Limited Warranty for detailed information.